Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Marshall Jiang
5th Period • Chiles High School • March 27, 2008
Pros Cons
Virus Defense The ability of virus The viruses can
Possible defence/treatment of a viral
to insert their DNA easily replicate,
infection is to use restriction enzymes
into cells allows evolve and evade
that recognize the virusʼs DNA. The
gene therapy to cells at the cellʼs
enzyme then will cut and remove the
take advantage of expense, some-
DNA, allowing the cell to resume
them times causing
normal operation.
death or the organ-
ism
Fungus
Seaweeds, Plantae?
Giant seaweeds are part of the Protista
Kingdom because they lack a specialized
vascular system, such as roots, stems,
leaves and enclosed reproductive structures
like flowers and cones. The discussion over
this classification is controversial is because
seaweeds, like true plants, uses chlorophyll
to go through photosynthetic.
Reproduction
Paramecium usually reproduces asexually
Human Diseases by splitting into two, almost identical organ-
ism. In this type of reproduction, no genetic
Malaria (Plasmodium) material is exchanged and is called “fission.”
Sometimes conditions such as overcrowd-
ing or other stress causes paramecium to
African Sleeping Sickness (Trypano-
reproduce sexually. In a process called con-
soma)
jugation, two paramecium line up side by
Leishmaniasis side, fuse together, and the nucleus divides.
This cause the chromosomes to mix and
cause diversity. The paramecium then made
Toxoplasmosis
go to asexual fission.
Movement
Paramecium movement is propelled
by thousands of little cilia on itʼs body.
On the other hand, Euglena moves by
using a single flagellum. Amoeba
moves using pseudopods; to get food,
the amoeba surrounds the food with
the pseudopods and store it in a
vacuole