...The last blog?

So...It's another late Sunday night! Today has been productive day full of painting our home office and trimming the floor. I can't wait to get our new office furniture Tuesday! But after all this hard work today, my body is sore, my back hurts and I'm ready for bed. It's our last week of class this week and so happy to finally be done, since I learned half-way through I didn't need to take it for the Cloverpark RN program I decided to go to since it's so much closer to our house. I feel like I've wasted a quarter of driving and hours in a class for no reason, but I did learn a few interesting things. Funny how life changes and we have to make choices. I've decided I'd rather take 2 extra classes before I can apply to the RN program at Cloverpark, then drive an hour and twenty minutes every morning to RTC and be done with prereqs after next quarter.

.....Adios!

Protein Synthesis

Friday I got a call from my boyfriend, and he said he was in the hospital for stepping on a rusty nail sticking out of a board at work. It's known that stepping on a rusty nail can cause massive infections if the individual has not had or gets a tetanus shot and does not recieve antibiotics. Proteins allow cells to detect and react to hormones and toxins in their surroundings, and as the chief ingredient in antibodies, which help us resist infection, they play a part in protecting our bodies against foreign invaders; by promoting growth and repairing bone, muscles, tissues, blood, and organs. Without protein synthesis, and the repair of these vital components of his body, he would not be able to defeat any foreign bacteria that could lead to infection!

Heterozygous

Yesterday, my boyfriend and I were driving along and on the side of the road a man was selling "Red" labs. We have been discussing getting another dog for our Shepard, so she has a friend to play with when we are not home... So I made him turn around and let me look at them.

I had never heard of a "Red" lab, but it makes since, that the colors are due to hybridization. The father was a "Red" lab and the mother a "White" lab. Together they produced 10 puppies. When we arrived there were 8 left; 2 all white puppies, 4 red ones and 2 that were mixed.  Some had brown eyes and some had green. We picked a mixed one with the green eyes and named her Butt-a-cup! I understood how these results were possible, based off of Mendel's model.

Another every day happening, that we learned about in class!