Mr. Ardito’s Classes

Now that you have some understanding of how DNA is put together and how it works to convey information to the body’s cells about how what the cells need to live and grow, it is time for you to teach it to someone else.
Your assignment is to use the “A Recipe for Traits” activity to [...]

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Now that we are in the middle of trying to make sense of DNA and how it really works, you may want to try to do some practice/review on your own.
Here is the presentation we saw today about the structure of DNA.
Here is an activity where you can build a molecule of DNA on your [...]

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Here is the link for the for the chromosome picture (karyotype) exercise that we did in class today.
If you haven’t finished your work, please do it on line. If you want to practice, please do so.

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Here we are, back doing weekly science article reports.
This week, be sure to include what you said you would work on in last week’s assignment. Please continue to pay attention to your spelling and grammar.

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Here we are, back doing weekly science article reports.
This week, be sure to include what you said you would work on in last week’s assignment. Please continue to pay attention to your spelling and grammar.

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Here we are, back doing weekly science article reports.
This week, be sure to include what you said you would work on in last week’s assignment. Please continue to pay attention to your spelling and grammar.

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Here we are, back doing weekly science article reports.
This week, be sure to include what you said you would work on in last week’s assignment. Please continue to pay attention to your spelling and grammar.

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Hi guys!
Many of you said in your reflections on your work so far that you would like to read a larger variety of articles as well as articles that are more “meaty.”
To help with this, I have put together a web page with tons of links to science news (as well as Science News). From [...]

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I just read an article about another impact on global warming.
According to the article, NASA scientists have demonstrated that warmer oceans are having a very negative impact on life in that biome.
In a “sneak peak” revealing a grim side effect of future warmer seas, new NASA satellite data find that the vital base of the [...]

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As we discussed in class, your assignment this week is to look over your weekly reports (from Week 5 on) as well as the feedback other students have left for you. Then, I want you to say (in a paragraph or two) how you are going to improve your next report.

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