Month: July 2021

As food passes through the digestive tract, digestion occurs in the order of ingestion, propulsion, mechanical or physical digestion, chemical digestion, absorption, and defecation. In terms of the process that operates the steps of digestion, the human body performs four vital functions known as motility, digestion, absorption and secretion. As …

Estrogen, Bone Growth, and Postmenopausal Osteoporosis Objective and Introduction My STEAM project is based on the objective “explain how bone development is hormonally regulated”. My research and the comic illustrations are about female sex hormone estrogen and postmenopausal osteoporosis, which include the function of estrogen in female bone development during …

A woman clothed in a warm parka dumps hot water onto a naked man during a Fairbanks winter in below freezing temperatures. Abstract Taking a walk in the sub-zero temperatures of Fairbanks can naturally raise your core body temperature by simply cutting down on the amount of clothing you wear. …

I created a cake that represents an animal cell with all of its associated organelles.   The cell membrane is composed of a phospholipid bilayer.  Phospholipid molecules have a phosphate group as the “head” and a lipid “tail.”  The phosphate group is polar and negatively charged; this makes the phosphate group …

I did the comparison of a healthy knee joint compared to a knee joint that is effected by Rheumatoid Arthritis.

The blue and brown paintings outside the human and COVID are germs. COVID is first identified and then takes a bow and arrow and slings at a person who does not have a mask on or does not sanitize himself. That person soon gets COVID and ends up getting hospitalized. …

For my STEAM project, I decided to focus on the Anterior Cruciate Ligament(ACL) and the anatomical function of the ligament. I have torn my ACL before, so I wanted to learn more about the function and how it works. This drawing represents the normal ACL and then the torn ACL, …