Patterns Physics: February 2017

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Agenda:

ACT Math Cheat Sheet:
http://www.powerscore.com/act/help/content/act%20math%20flash%20cards.pdf
3.2.3: Breast Cancer Screening and Prevention

Part I: The Genetics of Breast Cancer

Watch the video clip A Family Disease taken from NOVA’s Cracking the Code of Life program, found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpiqNttbTpY

Breast Cancer.org’s “Assessing Your Genetic Risk” found at: http://www.breastcancer.org/risk/genetic/testing/ (Links to an external site.)

Go to the GeneticHealth’s website and read the article Hereditary Versus Spontaneous Cancer, found at: http://www.genetichealth.com/G101_Hereditary_vs_Sporadic_Cancer.shtml (Links to an external site.)

BRCA1 and BRCA2: https://www.knowbrca.org/Learn/brca1-and-brca2-gene-mutations

Three types of inherited cancers: http://www.siuh.edu/Our-Services/Clinical-Services/Cancer-Services/The-Hereditary-Cancer-Genetics-Program/Sporadic-vs-Hereditary-Cancer.aspx

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Agenda: January 18th:

Activity 3.2.1: Am I at Risk?

Turn in: When Cells Lose Control

Activity Resources:
Types of Cancer

Cervical Cancer: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/

Colorectal Cancer: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/1

Lung Cancer: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/4

Prostate Cancer: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/3

Skin Cancer: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/5

Breast Cancer: http://www.cancer.gov/types/breast

Testicular Cancer: http://www.cancer.gov/types/testicular

Leukemia Cancer: http://www.cancer.gov/types/leukemia/hp

Calculating Risk:

http://www.cancer.gov/types/common-cancers:

Learning Targets:

I can ...

identify variables that increase and decrease my risk factors for different types of cancer.

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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Agenda:

Activity 3.4.1 Personalized Medicine
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/precision/example/
Nell's DNA sequence

Resources:

Bioserver:

http://www.bioservers.org/bioserver/

SNPs make sense:

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/precision/snips/

What is Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL):

https://medcomic.com/medcomic/acute-lymphoblastic-leukemia/https://www.cancer.gov/types/leukemia/patient/child-all-treatment-pdq

(Links to an external site.)at http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/pharma/

PLTW Cancer Center – Bioinformatics Lab

DNA Sequence Data: partial TPMT gene (840 base pairs) – acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients

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gcgggcggag gcggggcgcg gagaagtggc ggaggtggaa gcggaggcgt acccgcccct

ggggacgtca ttggtggcgg aggcaatggc cggcaaccag ctgtaagcga ggcacggaag

acatatgctt gtgagacaaa ggtgtctctg aaactatgga tggtacaaga acttcacttg

acattgaaga gtactcggat actgaggtac agaaaaacca agtactaact ctggaagaat

ggcaagacaa gtgggtgaac ggcaagactg cttttcatca ggaacaagga catcagctat

taaagaagca tttagatact ttccttaaag gcaagagtgg actgagggta ttttttcctc

tttgcggaaa agcggttgag atgaaatggt ttgcagaccg gggacacagt gtagttggtg

tggaaatcag tgaacttggg atacaagaat tttttacagg gcagaatctt tcttactcag

aagaaccaat caccgaaatt cctggaacca aagtatttaa gagttcttcg gggaacattt

cattgtactg ttgcagtatt tttgatcttc ccaggacaaa tattggcaaa tttgacatga

tttgggatag aggagcatta gttgccatca atccaggtga tcgcaaatgc tatgcagata

caatgttttc cctcctggga aagaagtttc agtatctcct gtgtgttctt tcttatgaac

caactaaaca tccaggtcca ccattttatg ttccacatgc tgaaattgaa aggttgtttg

gtaaaatatg caatatacgt tgtcttgaga aggttgatgc ttttgaagaa cgacataaaa

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