Teacher Thoughts

Throughout the past couple of weeks, Derrick, Kim, and I chose to maintain the topic of cellular biology and its implications on genetic diversity. In this week’s assignment, we had to pick three words that related to our readings. We chose Golgi apparatus, mutation, and cell as our three words to dig into deeper. These words are common in science, particularly in biology at any grade level. The Golgi apparatus represents an organelle and is taught in further detail in cell biology. Mutation relates to cell biology with a focus in genetics, DNA structure, and function. Cell is the basis of biology because a cell is the smallest unit of life and biology is the study of life. Because of those reasons, we thought it would be appropriate for each of us to discuss each word in greater detail. Biology encompasses many vocabulary words that can be difficult for students to understand. Graphic organizers can help us as teachers teach students new terms. Graphic organizers are visual repre...

The article discussed can be found here: Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association. (2018, April 9). Tracing the origin of each cell in a zebrafish. ScienceDaily . Retrieved from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180409141623.htm Continuing on with our topic of cellular biology and the implications on genetic diversity, Derrick, Kim, and I used the internet as a resource again in order to find scientific texts. We found an article on Science Daily titled “ Tracing the origin of each cell in a zebrafish.” The article talks about how technology can determine different cells types and cell lineages. The benefit of knowing cell lineages can help determine the function of a cell when it first occurred. This article ties in technology in STEM, DNA structure function, DNA replication and repair, cell division, heredity, and evolution. Those topics are part of the core learning goals in biology for the Maryland State Department of Educ...

The article discussed can be found here: May, M. (2018, February 2). Tumor mutation burden: unlocking cancer’s genetic fingerprint. Scientific American Custom Media. Retrieved from https://www.scientificamerican.com/custom-media/tumor-mutation-burden/ . ( https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/11/28/nano-mapping-dna-mutations-with-crispr-could-transform-disease-treatment/ ) This week, Derrick, Kim, and I decided to stay on the topic of cellular biology and implications on genetic diversity. Similar to last week, we used the internet as a resource and browsed through different scientific websites and databases. We found an article on Scientific American titled “Tumor mutation burden: unlocking cancer’s genetic fingerprint.” The article talks about how targeted cancer treatments based on an individual’s disease biology can be possible due to predictive biomarkers. Chemotherapy has been a popular treatment, but it attacks many cells, but ...