Fragile X

What Is Fragile X

Fragile X is the most common inherited form of mental retardation. It results from a change,or mutation, in a single gene. And if a family member had Fragile X it woul be possible to pass it on from generation to generation.

Symptoms

It occurs when the mutated gene cannot produce enough of a protein that the body cells need, and by this I mean brain cells. But the mosst noticable symptom is intellegence.

Extra Facts

Males with Fragile X have a IQ of 75 or below, but differs from females. Some females have metal impairment, learning disabilities, and some have a normal IQ. Characteristics of people with Fragile X have large  ears and long faces. Also problems with sensations, emotions, in speech, language, and physical.

Cure

No cure for Fragile X at this time. But treatments are usedto reduce symptoms. Treatments for childern that recieve the proper education needed. Medication options, and theraputic options. These are treatments that help victums of Fragile X and help them trough life as the move on from child to adult or vice versa.

Genes and People Effected by Fragile X (estimates)

The name of the mutated gene is FMR1.

These are the estimates of males with Fragile X

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  3,500 to 8, 900 males are affected by full mutation of the gene.
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  1 to 1000 are effected by premutation.

These are the estimates of females with Fragile X

• 1 in 250 to 500 females are affected by premutation.
• 1 to 4000 females affected by full mutation.





Adults With Fragile X

With proper treatment and education people with Fragile X can live on their own and hold and maintain a job.

http://www.fragilex.org/html/home.shtml This is the foundations to treat and help people with Fragile X



Links :
http://www.fragilex.org/html/home.shtml
http://www.medicinenet.com/fragile_x_syndrome/article.htm
I didn't Plagerise (if this is how u spell it)

Blog Post #6

1. My Favorite Geology topic this year was learning about Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic rocks, because I got see rocks I've never seen before and also experiment on them as well.
2. My favorite Meteorolgy topic was learn about all types of diffrent clouds originating from cirrus clouds, stratus, and also cumulus clouds.
3. My favorite Astronomy topic was talking about black holes and how our universe was created. It was also my favorite subject because we can learn only so much about our solar system and the universe that I wanted to learn more.

4. I think I made a 93 - 96 because I looked at my previous quizes I've tooken from the past weeks and also did my crossword puzzles as well. I wish I had done better on all my test because I could have had an A in this class, but I never study.

Blog Post #5

Blog post 4

1. What made the Big Bang "bang?" In other words, why didn't the universe just stay in a tiny little sphere the size of a golfball? The universe couldn't contain all the stars, galaxies, planets, planetecimals. So they all kept on expanding until the point when the universe couldn't hold as much as it could which created the Big Bang when there came to be atoms like protons and neutrons, also even elctrons which later will form today's solar system and universe.


2. What do you think would happen if you went into a black hole? Scientists only know what happens until you get to the event horizon. Anything beyond that is really just an educated guess. You don't know if or when you are getting sucked in until the point where you are being crushed into the size of a golf ball.

3. Tell me what you think about worm holes? When you pass through one, where do you go? WHEN do you go?  I think a worm hole is a teleporter because if you were to go through one you'll would end up in a diffrent time period, and a diffrent place. Maybe it might be just the same place, but just in a diffrent time.

Blog Post 3

1. What are the four ways scientists can detect planets?

Radical velocity, Astrometry, transit method, Optical detection.
2. Which way makes the most sense to you? Explain it.
The transit method is when a planet blocks out a star, and you can see a black dot moving.


The Goldilocks Zone

3. Explain the concept of the "Goldilocks Zone."
To be close to it's home star so that the surface won't get to hot nor to cold.
4. If Gilese 581c does have life, what do you think it would look like? How would it act? Would it be intelligent? It might be just a big ocean with land underneath it. It would act like a ocean with vegitation underneath.

5. Do you believe in aliens? Why or why not? Give me a solid paragraph. Yes, because there are so many other planets and also solar systems, so there might be a good chance that there might be life on those planets. Not exactly the aliens we would think, but like tiny microorgnisms. Another thing is people say they have been adducted so that's an indicator to me.

1. What is the primary gas in the Jovian atmospheres? The primary gas is Hydrogen


2. What is the primary gas in Mars and Venus? The primary gas is Carbon dioxide
3. If you had to visit one planet, which would it be? Why? Give me a solid paragraph. (consider many factors such as location, temperature, atmosphere composition, and anything else you you feel is important) If I was to visit a planet I would say Pluto because it is an unexplored planet that pleople have not been to. I know that it's really cold, and I like cold places. Pluto might contain diffrent gases that we don't know of, and I would want to discover them myself.

Blog Post 1

Pluto

I found Pluto to be interesting because it's considered one of the smallest planet's we know today or a dwarf planet.Pluto is real far away from the sun where it gets really no heat what so ever. Pluto is made of gases like helium and hydrogen. which it can't support human life.

Asteroid Belt

The asteroid belt is a big ring or belt of asteroids. Asteroid's can differ in size from big tpo small. If they were to hit they would be knocked far away, or they would just collide with each other.

Apollo's Mission

The mission was to the moon and descover diffrent rocks and  to get samples.

Search for Aliens

Right now we are searching for aliens as we speak. We believe that planets with liquid water( not including earth) support alien life underneath the suface. But people say aliens come from Mars.

International Space Station

This space station cooperates with all tyhe diffrent nations. And they work together to discover diffrent characterisics of the planets.

Blog Post 6

1. Which blog was your best this quarter? Why? My best blog was number 4 because I enjoyed working on pollen because I never knew that there was diffrent types of pollen. We looked at diffrent pictures and researched a specific type of pollen and where it came from.


2. What topic did you enjoy learning about the most (from chapter 17-20)? Why? Include a picture.
I liked learning about the clouds because their are so many types of patterns of clouds and the types of weather they bring.

3. What grade do you deserve for your 3rd Quarter Blogs? (Keep in mind some basic math. If you only did 3 out of 6 of them you cannot earn above a 50%.) I think I deserve a 100% because I did all my blogs, and I worked hard on them. I didn't rush through them or anything. Yet I also enjoyed doing them.

Atmosphere wordle

Pollen Problem !

Check out Fayetteville's pollen forecast. Which is affecting us the most right now: tree, grass, or weed pollen? Specifically, which trees, grasses, or weeds?
Trees


2. "You're Surrounded by Pollen," so read this article. What is needed for a "perfect storm" of pollen?

Dry windy weather, and a long cold winter.

3. Choose a microscopic image of pollen. Which one looks the best to you? Why? Where is this pollen commonly found? Write a paragraph in your own words explaining this specific type of pollen. Include a cool-looking picture. You may need to use other websites to help you.
 

Onagraceae Pollen

 

Onagraceae Pollen are found in the certain type of flower called Oenothera fruticosa. The flower is located in all these states (AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, VA, WV). The flower is a bright yellow. And the Pollen doesn't contain any startch.

Matter

1. What are the five states of matter?

Solids, liquids, gases, plasmas, and Bose-Einstein condensates
2. What is needed to change a gas into a plasma?
Energy
3. What is the temperature at "absolute zero?" (in Farenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin)
Kelvin=  0. Celsius=  -273.15 Farenheit = -459.67





4. What is the temperature in space? (in Kelvin)
The tempreture in space is 3 in kelvin
5. What do you think plasma would like look/smell/feel/taste?
plasma would look like a shinny glowing colored bar, it would smell like a very hot light bulb, it will feel like you are burning alive, and it would taste like hot rocks and sand.

1. New technolgies that are being used in schools are rainwater collections, geothermal A/C and solar photovoltaic power systems.
2. Rainwater harvesting - is when we get rain water and collect it into a big pipe
   photovoltalic- which are solar pannels
   geothermal A/C- steamed or hot water to use as power for air conditioning
3.  I pick and an core issue Sustainable Development
4. As we expand (humans) we must need to adapt to mother nature and use organic agriculture more often.
5. If we were to sovle this problem we should adapt to mother nature more.We should use less energy by make solar pannels.By doing so we could stop a big portion of greenhouse gases.

Hurricane Katrina Blogpost #1

1. Hurricane Katrina
2. category 3
3. Hurricane Katrina brought conditions to southern eastern Louisiana, Southern Mississpi, and southwest Alabama. Many stations were destroyed, lost power, and or communication. Katrina caused 10 to 14 inches of rainover southern Florida, and also 33 tornados were reported.
4. $ 75 billions and 2407 deathes

Review Questions

1. What is the hottest layer in the out of the atmospheres, what is the pattern between the layers?
2. What is the most common gas in the atmosphere, and what precent of it is in the atmosphere?
3. When is the winter solstice, and how is it determined?
4. What is the greenhouse effect, then how does it affect our enviorment?
5. What is radiation, and does it protain to albedo in any way?

Blog Post #6

Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Earth's Day Shifted Axis

The Huffington Post
By:Malcolm Ritter 03/2/2010 6:55PM

Quote from: Richard Gross, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and colleagues calculated that Saturday's quake shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds.

The reason I agree is because from my mind when a earthquake hits with a high magnitude can strike the earth and then reverse it's rotation counter-clockwise. Which then probably increase the speed of the earth.

OCEANOGRAPHY WEBQUEST

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd4p37vn_0d8gmtfck

Philip Emeagwali Who was a Computer Scientist

Philip Emeagwali contributed to black history month by won the Gordon Bell supercomputing prize in 1989 for applying the power of networked computers to analysis of oil field reserves.
Philip also designed the program and formula for the fastest computer on earth called the connection machine.He designed a system of parrallel computers that are used by all search engines. He also designed the Hyperball computer which is able to forecast long-term global warming patterns.
For the last step I chose John Love who invented the pencil sharpener. With out him we probably wouldn't be able to use pencils because by having to cut many trees down to supply all our needs in school. Which will hurt our economy.

Rodinia

1. How were Rodinia and Pangaea similar and different from each other? In Rodinia all the continents are near each other, but in pangaea they are all together.


2. When did the tectonic plates appear to move the fastest? (biggest difference between two consecutive maps)

I say from 420 million years to 450 million years

3. Look at Pangaea (250 million years ago). If the continents looked like Pangaea today, what would the world be like? Think about governments, sports teams and leagues, and other aspects of life.

We wouldn't need to travel by sea, but it would be peaceful and everybody would have to get along with each other.

4. Look at Pangaea. If you could pick any place in Pangaea to start a modern civilization, where would you pick? Why? (there is a key on the bottom of the page that explains what the little letters in the maps stand for. For example, "ar" means Arabia.)
 
 I would choose South America because to the west the water ould be a good trade route. Also you are still in the middle where people will report and to at you because you are the inner country.

2nd Blog Post

1. Cambrian, Ordovician, Siurian, Devonian, Mississippian,Carboniferous,Pennsylvanian, Permian,Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Quaternary.
2. Chicken,Onions,Sausage,Diced,Mushrooms,Celery,pepper,Parsley,Juice,Cherrys,TatterTots, and Quiche.
3. D,A,E,B,C

1. TauTona gold mine in South Africa  which is about 3.6 kilometers deep.
2. The mantle is 3,000 km of rock
3. If I was to dig to the mantle with my friends we would see volcanos, magma, and lava flowing out. While in the mantle it would be entirly red and things melting like if you were to put lava on plastic. The outer core would be like a hot yellow jellow that would jiggle and would lead into the inner core which is like a round ball of cheese and as bright as the sun which would be solid and hard. Basically nothing can get through it. When we found out we couldn't brake through we tried to escape and about 2 of my friends burned to death because they unzipped their heat suit.

1. What grade do you deserve for your 1st Quarter Blogs? I think i deserve a 100 because I did all my blogposst diligently and I finish 1 when I was absent.
Also I enjoy working on them and putting my full effort in them.





2. Why do you deserve this grade? The reason why is I did them all and they all sound good
plus I put 100% into all my post and work.


 
 
3. Which blog was your best? Why? I think all my blogs are my best because I worked so hard on them all.

WhY RocKz RocK

Granite

Is a Igneous rock used to decorate the outsides of buildings. Which makes them look better.

Sand and Cement

Are Sedimentary rocks that are used to be walked on in everyday society making it easier to walk and get around to diffrent locations.

Marble

Is from Metamorphic rocks which are good for decorating building and making bowling balls. Also It makes playing marbles for kids and adults

Quartz Rock

Gas Mileage

If I was to give my parents advice about the car I want I would just say it looks nice. The car is a Chevrolet Corvette ZRI ZR-3.The car is fast and it's ok on gas mileage.

Quartz Crystal

My "Xbox 360's" hardrive has quartz witch I play all with and the time and save memory to as well when I want to save Something.

Galena

I use pencil lead for my mechanical pencil to write on paper in school, and at home when I do my homework.

Halite

I use halite when I'm eatting french fries when I put salt on them. Also I use salt on

Calcite

When I get up in the mornings to go to school I go into the bathroom to brush my teeth with toothpaste.

Bauxite

When I want to wrap my food and save it for tomorrow I wrap it with aluminum foil.

My FavoriiTe MaP ProjecTiioN

My Favorite Map projection is the Robinson map.

THe reason I like the Robinson map is because it is the flat representation of the earth.

Another is because you don't have to keep turning it like you do a globe.

Also to me I like it because it can view a wide space of the world including all the continents.

This is why I like the Robinson map.

My FaVoriitE SciiEnce

My favorite science is Oceanography because I just like the water.

The reason is because I like all the oceanic creatures that lurke in the deep sea.

Also in the ocean was where the first organisms were formed.

Another reason is that the ocean is full of mysterys in the deep freezing and crushing presure in the waters.

The ocean just has diffrent species never seen.

This is why I like Oceanograpy.