Nicolas Reed Science Blog

The Carbon Footprint of Our Charity Fair Product, Luminary Lanterns Summary:        Carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide and other carbon compounds emitted due to the consumption of fossil fuels by a particular material. For example, a product that I created, a Luminary Lantern has a carbon footprint of 10411.625g of CO2/kg. I know this due to how I researched and tracked the amount of miles each of the individual materials (that are used to create a Luminary Lantern) traveled. I then multiplied the amount of miles by a certain number regarding the type of transportation each material took. If a product traveled by train, I multiplied the amount of miles it traveled by 0.1g of CO2/kg. If a product traveled by airplane, I multiplied the amount of miles it traveled by 0.8g of CO2/kg. If a product traveled by truck, I multiplied the amount of miles it traveled by 0.17g of CO2/kg. Lastly, if a product traveled by car, I multiplied the amount o...

Evolution and Antibiotic Resistance Project Brochure Summary:        This week in science we finished our evolution project (mine was about evolution and antibiotic resistance) where we first had to research about how evolution affects antibiotic resistance and antibiotic resistance in general. Then communicate our findings through creating a brochure. What I learned from this project was what antibiotic resistance is, how evolution plays a part in antibiotic resistance, how natural selection influences antibiotic resistance, how national and international agencies combat antibiotic resistance, how the public can help combat increased antibiotic resistance, and animals play a part in this whole situation. What one national agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does to combat antibiotic resistance is making diagnostics stronger by substantiating lab tests, educate research and development to evolve drugs like antibiotics and antifungals, evol...

Summary:        Antibiotic resistance is when a consumer consumes the antibiotic drugs more than prescripted. This allows bacteria to grow resistant to the antibiotic drug faster than at a regular pace. When the bacteria gains resistant to the antibiotic the only resort is to use a stronger (and more expensive) antibiotic biotic. Bacteria’s resistance towards antibiotics are absurd. Being able to go through versions of antibiotics multiplied, once, ten times, one hundred times, and even one thousand times in less than 11 days. The bacteria evolves and gains resistance of the antibiotics so fast it becomes terrifying. This means that humans can be in severe danger as bacteria are becoming incredibly resistant to antibiotics which is what most humans rely on to fight bacteria, viruses, and diseases. Natural selection influences the effectiveness of antibiotics and the virulence of infectious agents through the most fit bacteria (diseases, and/or viruses) that is res...

Summary:        Cladograms are the type of diagram that scientists use to show how species are related. What the word "species" means in Latin is "kind." We name species through using organisms' binomial name. The two terms used for an organisms' binomial name are their species and genus. Cladograms can tell us certain traits of an organism and they can tell us which organisms are more closely related, and how those organisms are related. Cladograms can tell us about many different traits of certain organisms such as if they contain traits like if they are alive, eukaryotes, symmetrical, have backbones, are tetrapods, vertebrates, lay amniotic egg, hair, and are diapsids. Tetrapods are animals with four limbs and amniotic egg is an egg that can be laid on land due to the presence of a fluid-filled amniotic sac that cushions and protects the developing embryo. Diapsids are animals with two additional openings (besides the eyes and nostrils) on the side of ...

The question that I got wrong was: My original answer was, "domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, order, genus, species," the correct answer however is "domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species." This is a better answer due to how it would make sense for "order" to go before "family." This is due to how "order" is a more broad term for describing animals and has a longer list of animals that could be in a certain "order." Whereas "family" is more specific and "families" are in certain "orders" and not the other way around. This is why the correct answer, is a better answer than my answer.