The Bodies Exhibit

So...that field trip to new york was AMAZING!!!! The bodies exhibit was just jaw dropping. I never imagined cancer looked like that. I never thought nerves were that HUGE. The circulatory system room was like an art exhibit...I could go on and on and on.

I mean look at it! <==

Being that close to real bodies...I can't quite describe it. I learned so much about how it actually looks. Models and pictures can't compare.

Livers are huge. Especially fatty ones. Enough said.

The development room sent chills down my spine. I felt guilty just to be alive. All those poor babies, dying before birth...it's tear wrenching.

What these scientists have done is amazing. Though, I do think it took a macabre sense of humor to do some of the things they did. One man was dancing with himself. Another was giving himself a high five. While amusing, I wonder if the people would have appreciated that.

And to the man who broke that poor guy's penis off...go get counseling. For everyone's sake.

Plant Hormones = Steroids + Abscisic Acid

Ok. I don't know about the rest of you, but I find something rather amusing about all this plant hormone stuff. For starters, the first three groups to present in A-block all refered to their hormones as steroids, and with good reason. Because of the five kinds of hormones we're covering right now, four of them induce growth, only one inhibits it. Abscisic acid should hold its head up high, it has alot going against it.

Of course, auxin seems to be in charge. At least one of the other hormones(cytokinins, and I believe gibberellin) depends on auxin to function.

I also give props to ethylene for being a gas, and able to both ripen our fruit and help them rot. Way to play both sides.