Life Skills Science Class
Launch the media gallery 1 playerOur Science class has been studying plant and animal cells, the parts of a cell, and the process of by which they replicate themselves. As one student put it, it is like cloning yourself. Most recently the group completed posters depicting the different stages of the cell cycle when it divides and makes two new cells. Did you know that it takes almost 24 hours for a single cell to replicate the DNA and divide into two new cells called daughter cells? This process repeats itself over and over again in our bodies, whether it is in our bones, skin, brain, blood, or nerve tissue. There are three phases in the cell cycle: interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis. Students explored DNA replication and how the different proteins line up on a single strand of DNA. A woman scientist first saw the double helix of a chromosome under a microscope, but was never credited with doing so. Currently they are learning how Cancer cells form, and the treatment and prevention of Cancer.