In the first section of this page, you will write a daily summary of that day's class.  For example in  your chapter 2 blog, your first entry should be titled 9/3/10.  You should then write a one or two paragraph summary of that day's lecture, outlining the major points.  In the second section, you are required to add two items (link to a website, video, animation, student-created slide show, student-created PowerPoint presentation) and one journal article pertaining to a topic in this chapter.  A one-paragraph summary must accompany each item describing the main idea and how it applies to the lecture topic.  Please see the PBWorks help guide for assistance embedding video and other items directly in the page.  I will also produce a how-to video on using tables to wrap text around items and other useful tips.  Please see the syllabus for organization and grading details.

A.  Daily Blog

In class on  9/10/10 we started off with the daily txt survey.  We started lecture starting chapter 3.  We learned about the different types of fucntional groups.  Ex: Amino, Carbonyl, Carboxl, Hydroxl, Methyl, Phospshate, Sulfate, and Sulfhydrl group.  We learned about each groups characteristics and what they would look like on a diagram.  The topic was a little confusing, but Dr. Webber told us to watch some virtual lectures, and podcasts and doing that will definatly clear things up.  While taking biology and A+P i definatly remember going over the functional groups, however i dont think we had to rememeber the diagrams and teh characteristics, so doing that will be new. 

In class on 9/15 we did the daily texting questionare.  I believe it was on protiens because right after that we started the lecture on proteins.  We went over what a protein is, and how its made up of amino acids that are joined together by peptide bonds.  Dr. Webber taught us the Amino acid functional group and told us to memorize that. Than he took a good part of the lecture to explain the differnt types of amino acid structures.  For example, how to identify the polar, non poplar.  For polar you check if the structure has an OH and an O=C in the structue.  Non polar would have CH, H, CH2, and CH3 in them those are all called hydrocarbons.  Than we learned about protein structure, for example primary, secondary, quartinary, tertiary stucture.  And finally to end the class we had to answer the question why does a protein fold up.  and the answer was that because proteins have hydrophobic and hydrophillic molecules in the, it folds up so when the protein is in the water, the exterior of the protein has all the hydrophellic molecules to enjoy the water, and the interior has all the hydrophobic molecules to stay away from the water.

in class on 9/17 we skipped the daily texting uestion and we jumped right into nucleic acids.  We started to go over primary structure, secondary structure, tertiary structure and genes.  But than Dr. Webber decidied that today he didnt want to lecture us for the whole time, so we stopped and we all participated in this hands on activity.  We has a sheet that described an experiment , on how they took normal RNA that was folded up, and the scientists used urea to break the H bonds on the Rna causing it to unfold again.  Than they measured the RNAs ability to fold back up.  it turned out that this RNa did, but some proteins won't fold back up.  We had to get into groups and answer questions like deacribe the experiment, how does this relate to our class, ect.   

B.  Useful Materials