This week in biology I missed a day so that didn't help me very much. We did learn about Punnet squares though and what the genetic traits of an offspring will be based on the parents genes. We also learned about dominant and recessive traits Dominant traits are always expressed with a capital letter and recessive with a lower case letter. I going to have to get caught up on the work I missed but I don't think it'll be that much.

This week in Biology we learned a lot about DNA. I learned that the structure of DNA is a double helix and also how to transcribe DNA to RNA. We did a really cool lab where we tried to extract DNA out of split peas. It was kind of hard to do because everything had to be done exactly right. We also have another project due on April 1 and I have a lot of work I have to get done for that. It's a difficult project because it has to be simple enough for 4th graders to understand but explain the disease thoroughly. I hope I can make a good grade on it.

This week we watched Jurassic Park and did a web quest to go with it. I've seen this movie a few times but I really like watching it. The way they pulled the DNA from the blood in the mosquito was really cool. That isn't possible for us to do in real life though because we couldn't feel in the gaps with frog DNA like they did. I believe that one day we will get to the point where we can recreate dinosaurs. It's going to be dangerous though because like in the movie the dinosaurs could get loose and attack us. I think this movie was good for us to watch though to see how we could recreate an animal that has gone extincted.

This week in Biology we did a really fun lab using the microscopes. I thought it was really cool being able to see the nucleus in the animal and plant cells. I also got to learn how to properly use a microscope. Biology hasn't been that hard for me so far. I've really loved it so far and I hope it stays that way. It is definitely one of my favorite classes.