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  Ecosystems and The Biosphere  What is an Ecosystem and Biosphere? Ecosystems are a community of many living organisms and their nonliving environment. Ecosystems can range in size from a tiny pool of water to the largest rainforest. There are a collection of three different types of ecosystems. The first is freshwater, freshwater ecosystems are lakes, reservoirs, rivers, wetlands, and streams. “Freshwater ecosystems are interactive systems within which biotic species and their growth and adaptation, and associated biological productivity, nutrient cycling, and energy flows among inland aquatic microbial, plant, and animal communities, are integrated with their environment,” (Wetzel 2001) this ecosystem uses the vapors from saltwater ecosystems, which the salt is separated when the water turns to steam, and eventually is released as rain or snow into our freshwater systems. Of course, the following system is marine ecosystems. “ Marine ecosystems are aquatic environments with high le
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Inheriting them Traits

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  Have you ever wondered how you get all your different traits, why it happens, and where they started? Well, I'm here to tell ya! We first learned about how crossing genetics work when Johann Gregor Mendel first studied the problems in inheritance. He learned that there are certain traits that are passed from parent to offspring. He performed many different experiments with pea plants.  He determined that there are many different ways that traits can be passed. Referring to my previous blog post there are many diseases that are passed by chromosomes, however, there are inherited diseases, “ The expression of the mutated allele with respect to the normal allele can be characterized as dominant, co-dominant, or recessive. There are five basic modes of inheritance for single-gene diseases: autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, X-linked dominant, X-linked recessive, and mitochondrial,”( Genetic Alliance, 2008) Even though there are five different types I’ll only mention one or tw
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Disorder in the Court!

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THERES DISORDER HERE!          There are so many sets of chromosomes... What happens when you lose some or gain some? There are many ways to explain it, but we're gonna do it my way.      What is a karyotype? This term is referring to the number and appearance of chromosomes. Of the appearance it can include the length, the centromere position, which is the point in which the chromosomes are bound together, and lastly the banding pattern. To obtain a view of an individual’s karyotype, cytologists photograph the chromosomes and then cut and paste each chromosome into a chart (concept to biology, 2017)  There are many disorders that can come from changes in the chromosomes.  To name a few : Albinism, Angelman syndrome, Ankylosing spondylitis, Apert syndrome, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, Cystic fibrosis (CF), Down syndrome.  Disorders can be hereditary or a mutation. Inherited disorders may come up when chromosomes go through meiosis abnormally.  The ty
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