Genetics video

Today we watched a video on genetics. We took notes on the video. He is going to collect the notes.

• We inherit genetic material from our parents.


• A monk name Gregor Mendel created experiment to figure out how this happened.


• He did an experiment using peas like our pea soup simulation.


• Each parent contributes one factor.


• the factors are genes.


• they can tell what the offspring might look like, but they can also pass some diseases.
  


• Morgan started working with fruit flies to experiment.


• Morgan took a fruit fly with red eyes and one with white eyes.


• The offspring had red eyes.


• All of the flies with white eyes where male.


• Gender is determined by chromosomes.


• Morgan found out that the eyes and x chromosomes had some relationship.


• diseases are caused by problems with genes.


• George Beetle worked with Morgan.


• Beetle took bread mold and experimented with it.


• Beetle aerated the chromosomes and the mold didn't grow.


• When Beetle added the nutrients the mold started to grow again.


• This showed that genes did more that give the characteristics to offspring.


• Barbara Miclintok was a scientist.


• Miclintok researched the genetics of maize.
  


• The color showed where the break in the chromosomes occurred.
  


• The color would show up in different parts of corn.


• Transposons are in all different things.


• Miclintok's work was ignored.


• Alford Hershey and Martha Chase found out whether it was the protein in the bacteria or DNA that caused viruses.


• They found out that it was DNA.


• James Watson were finding out about DNA.


• He made a 3-D version of DNA.


• He got a a x-ray of the DNA and finished the structure.
  


• They found out that it was a double helix.


• People knew that DNA made protein.
  


• Scientists found that cells with lots of protein had lots of RNA.


• Scientists found out that mRNA translated instructions from DNA and made protein.


• They found out that when they where aligned with triplets it made proteins.


• The triplets were amino acids.


• Merinbourg found out how to decipher the genetic code.


• Certain types of bacteria had enzymes that stopped viruses from taking over the bacteria.


• Smith found out that the enzymes cut the DNA in the place it was.


• Through a process called alternative splicing RNA can make more protein.


• Jeffreys was a detective.


• Jeffreys found a DNA variant called mini satellite DNA.


• DNA fingering was used in Jeffrey's case.

I think that today's lesson was on the history of how people found out about genetics.

SD