Unit 5 Reflection

This unit was about DNA which is antiparallel and contains 3 parts which are a nitrogen base, a phosphate group, and a sugar. Other topic that we learned about was transcription which is when the RNA Polymerase reads and copies the gene for a protein, and translation where the ribosome reads the mRNA and translates the nucleotides into amino acids. After we learned about mutations such as frameshift mutations where either an extra base pair is put into the code or a base pair is left out. Finally we learned about gene expression where the gene is used to produce a gene product of phenotype, and gene regulation where a mechanism is used to increase or decrease the expression of a gene. One topic that I didn't really understand at first was gene expression and regulation, and one topic that I understood the most was mutations. 

I feel that I know more than I did before we started this unit, because at first I didn't understand certain topics until we went over them during class. What I think it means to be a good student is someone who listens attentively during the class and helps others when they are confused on something. I feel that I am a better student than I was before because during the beginning of the school year I didn't really participate that much when doing work with groups, and now I am participating more when doing lab work and when we have to discuss the vodcasts.