Monday, February 1, 2010

Science - ask a geneticist

Reading the articles in the links provided I learned many different things, including humans have 46 chromosomes and chimpanzee's have 48. This is because species that are similar have similar amounts of chromosomes, chimpanzee's have more because, upon looking at the model you can see, for a couple of the chromosomes two chimp chromosomes made up one of ours. This means as we evolved some of ours melded together and we only have 46 chromosomes. And that is one of the many things i learned from these articles.

Literature - Wooden Bowl

This story shows that what you do will reflect on your children. When the four year old said he was making a wooden bowl for them when he grew up that made the parents realize that what they were doing was wrong. This relates to C.A.R.E.S, responsibility because the parents are responsible for what their child is learning. If they hadn't done that to the grandfather the child never would have picked up that idea.