The Voyage of the Beagle

This past week, we have been making a google tour on Darwin´s voyage around the world.
Here you will find information about his discoveries and what mainly amazed him
We hope you enjoy it. 

http://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/builder#play/ahJzfmd3ZWItdG91cmJ1aWxkZXJyEQsSBFRvdXIYgICA8LnChAoM

For further information: 

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/expeditions-collecting/beagle-voyage/

 http://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/pages/index.php?page_id=b4

WORKING ON GENETICS WITH BEANS

These days we have been measuring beans. It has been a tough task and it may look boring but when we reach to the conclusion of the variability of the beans' length you will see it was all worth it and interesting.

We will soon post the graphic with the information we got.

 Here is Macarena measuring beans in class 

with a calibrator.       This is a calibrator and the beans we measured

Our baby

Because we did not choose the characters the boy came out a little weird:

"Creating a baby"

Yesterday, in our biology class, our teacher gave us two papers with 23 chromosomes drawn in each one. We had to cut out each chromosome and keep them seperated in those two groups. Aswell as the papers with the chromosomes, our teacher gave us another paper that said which pair of chromosomes showed each character. For example, pair 1 was type of hair.

We had to fold each chromosome in half. On each side there was an allele written on it. We threw both chromosomes from pair one in the air and then saw which ones were looking up. On the paper our teacher gave us we looked up what type of hair it correspond to and wrote it down. We did the same thing with the other 23 chromosomes, with a different character each.
Here there are some pictures of the process:

Class Work

Today at school we were given a kind of test which we had to have finished in just half an hour!!!
These activities were all about concepts we have already worked on (mitosis and meiosis).
We are waiting for the results!!

Down Syndrome Spanish Associations -Video

Here is our video.

In it we show the main Down Syndrome spanish associations.

If you'd like to have more information about any of this associations we will provide you (under the video) the links to the webpages of the most relevant ones.

We hope you like it.

More information here:

1. http://www.downgranada.org
2. http://www.downmadrid.org/
3. http://sid.usal.es/centrosyservicios/discapacidad/11725/4-1/aspanri-down-asociacion-sindrome-de-down-de-sevilla.aspx
4. http://sindromedown.cat/es/
5. http://www.asindown.org/

Working on our next video

Hello!!

 Here there are some pictures of us at school working on the Down Syndrome video we are going to upload soon and searching for information.