Muscle Strains

The human body has three different types of muscle tissues, skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. When muscles are overworked, one can suffer from muscle strains. To illustrate the different muscle tissues as well as muscle strains, I used photographs of Arnold Schwarzenegger as an example and created a collage!

Negative Feedback on the Digestive System

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 and Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

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 Negative Feedback Loop: How Freezing Warms the Body

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. …

This is Shelby Weber’s project

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 …

Lifeline

My project dives deeper into the Reproductive system and focuses in on the finer details and roles of the placenta in pregnancy and after.

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