Unit Blog, by Meg Trumper(:

5 Things that I learned during this unit--

1. I learned that there are various ways to treat cancer..I thought that there was only chemotherapy for some reason. But, now I know that there is chemo, radiation, surgery, and muuuch more.


2. I learned that you are at a much greater risk of getting melanoma if you are older, and your have pailer skin.


3. I learned that there are two seperate kinds of cellular division..meiosis or mitosis. Meiosis is with sexual reproduction and then Mitosis witch is like making more skin cells.


4. I learned that with cellular division there alot of steps. Like Interphase, Prophase, Prometaphase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, and Cytokinesis.


5. I learned that there are much more things to cancer and cellular division, than I could ever think of..and I'm sure there is much more to learn about that we havent already.

2 Questions I have about this unit--

1. How did the first scientists know about how cells divide?


2. How does the cancer develope in certain areas? Like why does it happen in the breasts, or in the lung, or the stomach?

1 thing I didnt like about this unit--

• I liked this unit a lot and there really wasnt anything I disliked--Umm..what didnt I like? The fact that cancer exists.

1 thing I did like--

• I liked learning about cancer because I just lost my grandma from it in December, and I liked knowing how it happened in her body.