Tuesday, October 27, 2009

HeLa Cells

Henrietta Lack passed away from cervical cancer in October of 1951. Her cancer cells have been growing in labs all over the world ever since. She has saved many lives and allowed the medical community to study and test cancer cells. We stained and examined these cells today and held a socratic seminar into "medical morality".





















Photosynthesis Notes

Kyle, Nathan and Achal made a study guide for photosynthesis...LIFE SIZE!!




Monday, October 26, 2009

Skyping for Office Hours

Since we can't make it to OSU for office hours we skype Dr. Rotheker every week to get all of our questions answered. Isn't technology grand?











Monday, October 19, 2009

Activity Rates of Enzymes

Peroxidase is the enzyme we tested at our OSU lab. It catalyzes the hydrolysis of hydrogen peroxide which can be a toxic by-product of aerobic respiration. After we processed the turnips, we used the spectrophotometer to establish the peroxidase activity.