Thursday, December 3, 2009

Science - What i learned

This trimester in the owl pellet unit I learned a lot about the digestive track of owls and other things. First after they eat and the pellet is being made the pellet blocks their throat so they can't eat anything else until that pellet is expelled. Also in one pellet an owl can have anywhere from one to four other animals.
In addition to that owls also have a variety of different things they eat in their diet, from bugs to other birds! What's amazing is that they eat their prey whole and some of the things they eat are huge! I could never be an owl though because I could never eat just once a day.

Science current event

The article I read was about how president Obama approved 13 new researchers to do stem cell research. Stem cell research is when cells from a fertilized embryo is put next to living cells to form that cell. The theory is that the cells from the embryo are like "blank cells" and will configure themselves to match the surrounding cells. The government will not fund it and nothing the government is funding is not allowed in the lab they are testing it in. They even had to repaint the walls to "ensure no contamination from federal funding".
Many people are against stem cell research but i am not. I don't see what's wrong with it personally. They are taking an UNBORN, not living, baby and using it to cure people with serious diseases. Since the embryo can not feel this I find nothing wrong with it.