Biology's AEM ( Day 2 )

Link to Biology's AEM ( Day 1 ) :http://hansyhp.blogspot.sg/2013/06/biologys-aem-day-1.html
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This morning's lecture was pretty heavy. I guess we wouldn't need to be introduced and showed around and stuff so he was going full force! HAHA XD and yea... Today's breakfast was the same as yesterday's. Can they just give us something different? 

So anyway, we went through 104 slides throughout the morning! I've calculated. Goddamn.  

We learnt about Biochemical Analytical Techniques today. We learnt what to do when entering a crime scene investigation, Proteins, Deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ), Electrophoresis ( There are physics formulas here, wow I don't take triple science man.. ) , Polymerase Chain Reaction ( PCR ) and Functions and applications of restriction Enzymes. 

You may be reading this and think, that's not too much! But let me tell you, each section has lots to cover. It was intense. 

There were breaks in between of course, we're not robots who are programmed to process information. Just toilet breaks of course, we couldn't go to the canteen or anything. 

You remember the Shark meat's practical my group did yesterday? Well we got our results today and we were told to draw graphs based on it. 

So today's practical was to analyse streroid hormones using High Performance Liquid Chromatography ( HPLC ) . We were suppose to test three hormones, Hydrocortisone, testosterone and progesterone and a cream sample solution for their retention timing and to identify the hormone present in the sample solution. 

The cool thing about this was that we just needed to inject the hormones and sample into the system, and the computer will do the rest of the work for us. Isn't technology great? ^^

You can see me taking the picture in the background ^^ hehe

Anyway, about the case study that we're working on and preparing for Friday's presentation, we were suppose to do the " Romanov case ". It was about the royal family of the Tsar and his family being captured and executed by the Bolsheviks during the Russian revolution in 1918 and in 1991 the bones were found and to determine that it belonged to the family, a technique called Mitochondrial DNA was used. 

So we are suppose to do a research on Mitochondrial DNA. Apparently, my group hasn't done anything much yet ^^ 


Check out day 3-5: http://yhpworld.blogspot.sg/2013/06/biologys-aem-day-3-5.html