Hey there young scientists and scholars! It is time to learn more about how cells become SPECIALIZED or DIFFERENTIATED. In other words, how they find their job. You will be exploring two websites and completing a few questions and tasks during this class period. Here are the places to go and the questions that go along with them. Just copy and paste these questions into a word document, type your answers in the document, put your name on it, print, and hand in! Very simple, very easy!
Use the What is a stem cell? and What are some different types of stem cells? to answer these questions...
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/stemcells/
1. What is a stem cell?
2. How do stem cells differentiate?
3. What type of cells make muscles?
4. What type of cell make the outer layer of skin?
5. What are osteoblasts and osteoclasts?
6. What is hemoglobin?
7. What does totipotent mean?
8. Which stem cells are totipotent?
9. What does pluripotent mean?
10. Which stem cells are pluripotent?
11. What does multipotent mean?
12. Which stem cells are mulitpotent?
Now try and send the right signals to stem cells at the virtual lab so they can become differentiated cells...
http://www.childrenshospital.org/research/Site2029/mainpageS2029P23sublevel39.html
