Author: Daniel

Written by Danny Rogers

Summary: Star Wars: episode 2 attack of the clones is a fantasy, action, and adventure movie. It was directed by George Lucas and was written by George Lucas and Jonathan Hales. The main actors of this film are Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker), Natalie Portman (Padme) and Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan).

The plot: after a failed assassination attempt on Padme the Jedi Anakin and Obi-Wan are told by the Jedi council to keep her safe and to figure out who gave the orders for the assassination attempt. Anakin and Padme travel to Naboo where it is safe and where Anakin could keep his eyes are her during that time they fell in love with each other. Obi-Wan went on the search for the person that give the order for the assassination, while he was looking at the evidence, he found out that the dart that killed the assassin was made in the planet called Kamino. He travels to this remote planet and this is where he discovers a huge secret clone army that has been building for years model from the bounty hunter Jango Fett. Obi-Wan follows Jango Fett to the planet Geonosis where he finds out who is behind the separatist movements.

How does this relates to Biology: this relates to biology because this movie has clones which make up the clone army that fights off the separatist. Cloning is when an organism is produced asexually making them genetically identical to whatever they are based off. In the movie the clones are made from a cloning facility where they start out as a single cell and grow from there. The process begins when the genetic code is made into a exact copy from what they are based on. When they get to a cretin age they are trained to fight for the republic. The clones are all physically identical but are different at the same time all the clone troopers have different personality’s making them more unique.

In today’s world cloning does happen but on a much smaller scale. We can clone animals and possibly people, but it is still a very new thing so its not a 100% sure fact that it will succeed. One way to clone is Artificial Embryo Twinning this mimic the process that happens when twins are made in the womb.  They take the embryo at a very early stage and put it on a petri disk and separated it into individual cells and then they are put into a surrogate mother to raise the embryo in the same egg making them clones.  Another way to clone something is the Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer method. This method is where they get a somatic cell from an organism they want to clone and isolated it, they then extract the nucleus and all its DNA from an egg cell. After doing that they move the nucleus form the somatic cell into the egg cell and have the egg cell develop into an embryo which is then implanted into a surrogate mother to grow into a clone.

How does it relate to are class: this relates to our class because we learned about genetics, meiosis and mitosis.

 

 

 

Works cited

“What is Cloning.” University of Utah. https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/cloning/whatiscloning/

Overmetal “Star Wars Canon Catch-Up: The History of Stormtroopers”. http://overmental.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Clonetroopers.jpg

Claudio Carvalho. “Storyline” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121765/plotsummary

 

 

Danny Rogers

10 October 2019

Sidney Altman

Sidney Altman was born on May 7th, 1939 in Montreal Canada. His father Victor Altman worked at a grocery store and his mother Ray Arlin worked as a textile worker they were both low income Eastern European immigrants. Sidney grew up in When Sindey was done with high school he moved to the US to go to college at Massachusetts instate of Technology after getting his bachelor’s degree in MIT he took a small class about molecular biology and really enjoyed it. he went back to school to study Physics at Columbia University and dropped out of that program after his first year because he didn’t have enough lab time and also some personal reasons. He then went back to school at the University of Colorado Medical Center to study DNA. In 1967 he got a PhD in Biophysics and went to work at Harvard, at Harvard he researched DNA and how the endonuclease was involved in replication and recombination of T4 DNA (Thefamouspeople). he also worked at Cambridge at the lab owned by Sydney Brenner and Francis Crick the co- discoverer of the DNA for a time researching RNA making huge progress there. he then got a job at Yale when he continued to Research RNA while at Yale where he and his partner Thomas Cech found the discovery of the Catalytic RNA and received a noble prize on the finding of the Catalytic RNA.

the Catalytic RNA is a big discovery because Sidney Altman found out that the RNA not only carries genetic information, but it also works as an enzyme. When he was studying a common bacteria cell in 1980, he found a weird enzyme which was made up of both RNA and protein components. He though it nothing at first but after experimenting with it he found out that the RNA is a component that is necessary for the enzyme and its enzymatic function. This is important because enzymes are most offend associated with proteins but with this discovery that way of thinking changed. enzymes are not just proteins, they can be RNA to, so this changes the old way of thinking and opens up a lot of new things to research on. This discovery opened a new field called RNA enzymology and it also might help new bio-technologies be made.

Sidney is married to Ann Korner and has been married since 1972 and they have 2 kids Daniel and Leah. one event that influenced him to go in the field of Science was the invention and use of the A-bomb. When he was 6 years old, he was intrigued in the mystique associated with the A-bomb and what the scientist did in building the bomb and how it was made. This made him very interested in being a scientist at a young age but when he was a teenage, he was giving a book about the periodic table and this was also a big thing for him because he really liked the book and he especially liked the scientific theory that the book interdicted to him. Which got him interested in going to school for science in general later specializing in molecular biology

Something I have in common with Sidney is that he is very driven, and he also worked hard to get to where he is now. I am also very driven with my goals even though they are different then Sidney’s I am going for an Accounting degree and a CPA right after college, I am also working very hard to accomplish those goals.

 

 

Works Cited

Amato, I. “RNA researchers earn chemistry Nobel.” Science News, 21 Oct. 1989, p. 262. Gale General OneFile, https://link-gale-com.lcc.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/A8041409/ITOF?u=lom_lansingcc&sid=ITOF&xid=abc662a4. Accessed 9 Oct. 2019.

Editors, TheFamousPeople.com. “Sidney Altman Biography”. TheFamousPeople.com 7 Nov 2017, https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/sidney-altman-7646.php

Sidney Altman – Nobel Lecture. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. Wed. 9 Oct 2019. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1989/altman/lecture/

RNA Catalysis. Digital image. The Jäschke Lab. 2 Feb 2012. https://www.ipmb.uni-heidelberg.de/chemie/jaeschke/research/

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