Bad Science Blogpost

       One day two researchers, Louis Jolyon West and Chester M. Pierce, in 1962, decided to test the effects of the drug LSD on Tusko, an elephant for nothing more then to just see the effects it would have on the elephant. Since they did not know the amount it would take to have an effect on Tusko so they gave him 3000 time the amount humans take, which is around 297 milligrams. Even though an elephant's weight in 90 times of that of a human, they didn't want to under dose him and that have to give him more. After the drugs were given to Tusko, he started running around his pen in circles, crazed. Then after he lost control of his movement, he started to have seizures and collapsed onto the floor. Yet even after they tried to counter the drug with an antipsychotic the attempts were useless. The seizures were reduced only slightly when Tusko then dropped to the floor and died. 


     This is an example of not only bad science but also blatant cruelty to animals. The experiment also proved to be a useless contribution the the field of science, it's not as if Tusko was somehow validated through the discovery of a cure for an illness, or something helpful to mankind, he simply died in vain. 


http://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/23/5-science-experiments-gone-wrong/

Onion Root Tips

Guiding Question: Approximately how much time do cells spend in each phase of the cell cycle?

To answer this questions we used a online activity that was a simulation. In this simulation we looked at pictures of cells that were in different stages of mitosis and had to classify them into Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase and Telophase. From looking at the amounts of cells that were in each category we were able to conclude that the phase that cells are in the most is Interphase, when they are a simple cell, and then one they are in the least is Telophase, which is where the chromosomes have split into their own separate cells.  In the table the amount of certain cells that were in a category had to be in number out of 36 and then a percent out of 100. To find the percents we took the amount and divided it by 36. From this we then got the different percentages.

Procedure:
Perform the onion root tip simulation and tabulate the number of cells in each phase. Construct an appropriate graph using your data to present the relative time a cell spends in each phase of the cell cycle.

 Conclusion: As we can see from the two pictures in this post we can conclude that cells spend most of there time in interphase and least of their time in telophase.