Senses

What I learned from this part of the body book is that a baby's brain insists on being handled by someone else and blankets or stuffed animals are considered to be counterfeit.

OOP'S

What I learned from this chapter of the body book is that IgE causes more sickness than it cures. I learned that Ige is responsible for allergies. It will trigger strawberry hives, that is when IgE has erred. I also learned that IgE only account's for 10 percent of all the antibody circulating in a non allergic person's body.

ANTIBODIES, ANTIGEN'S AND LYMPHOCYTES.

What I learned in this chapter of the body book is that my body has about two trillion lymphocytes. The lymphocytes have detectors that, when, a lymphocyte bumps into a molecule identifies it. The lymphocytes identify every large molecule that was not in my body when I was an embryo. But when it comes to any molecule that is new to my lymphocytes there are only a few that can attach themselves to that molecule. When that happens the lymphocytes start to clone and make other lymphocytes to get the invaders.
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CRAMPS

What I learned from this part of the body book is that when a woman is shedding the extra padding in the womb that she has prepared in case an egg was fertilized, she sometimes gets cramps that are painful. These cramps are caused by the womb contracting harder than necessary. This shedding is called menstruation.

EXONS

What I learned from this chapter of The Body Book is that a newly cloned lymphocyte has antibodies for antigens that have long been extinct and won't come back until the year 3000. I also learned that my antibodies have slots for diseases that won't come back unless humans bring them back. I also learned that an embryo doesn't have the antibodies or even an antibody stem. All that an embryo has is segments of DNA that are called exons. From these exons the genes for antibodys can be made. Every ancestral lymphocyte picks out segments of the exons at random. The parts of the exon that the lymphocytes are going to get, are cut by enzymes. The parts that the lymphocytes get make up the gene that is passed on to its clones. The final gene will have a lot less segments than the first exon did.

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HERPES

What I learned from this part of The Body Book is that cold sores and chicken pox go in the same group of viruses, herpes. Both of these viruses last about a week and then travel along my axons to my spinal cord and there they stay until they are disturbed and then they travel along my axons to my skin.

BIRTH

What I learned from this chapter of the body book is that when a baby is surgically removed from the womb it is rather drowsy compared to babies who are naturally born and are wide awake and interested in the new surroundings for hours after birth. I learned that the differences between babies who are surgically removed from the womb and ones that are not is chemical. Naturally born babies have their own hormones. I learned that hormones are responsible for toning my muscles for the weight of gravity, opening my air way's for the first breath of air and opening my eye's with curiosity. I also learned that when the pancreas doesn't make enough insulin, which is a hormone that controls how much glucose gets to cells, results in the disease that is called diabetes. Without insulin, cells can't take in enough food and are forced into eating their own substances, even the proteins. When that happens the cell starves and feels hungry all the time even if it eats constantly. I learned that diabetes isn't curable but if the person that has it takes insulin [diabetics] they then can have a normal life

MEASLES.

What I learned from this part of the body book is that the way Measles infects a body is by floating in the air on water molecules and then by being breathed by someone else. When the virus is in the mouth and throat it multiplies and doesn't do any damage until it has multiplied to a large number and let's loose into the blood stream

MOTHER'S MILK

What I learned from this chapter of The Body Book is that when you stroke the back of a baby, it triggers a complicated hormonal reaction that triggers insulin to take up more sugar and fat and that helps the baby grow. I also learned that a baby that drinks its mother's milk gets less diarrhea infection or ear infections because its mothers' milk has special hormones that help fight diseases.

NOT SUCSEPTIBLE.

What I learned from this chapter is that some people are not susceptible to a certain disease because some where along their family's reproductive line there was a mistake during copying that made a better defense possible. I also learned that bacteria can divide every 20 minutes.

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POISON IVY

What I learned from this chapter of the body book is that Poison ivy and other irritating rashes that erupt when their allergens are rubbed into the skin. The eruptions are caused by wayward T-cell's. The passport checkers detect alien molecules attached to cell surfaces and that is why they are so easily irritated.

RESISTANCE

What I learned from this chapter of the body book is that bacteria get their own disease. I learned that no other organisms but vertebrates make Ig's to fight off their sicknesses. I also learned that other organisms have a simpler way to get rid of their sicknesses: poison the invader. Another thing that I learned is that the antibiotic penicillin is made from a common mold. Penicillin was the first to be discovered. Learned that there is a bacteria that goes around inserting pieces of DNA during mating. Those pieces of DNA carried a mutated gene that blocked antibiotics and so the bacteria that got the gene were not harmed by the drug.

RUNGS OF THE GENETIC LADDER

What I learned from this part of the body book is that DNA is like a very long very twisted ladder. The rails of the ladder hold it together and all the rungs are the information. The rungs are made of pairs of four different molecules. Each molecule has a letter to abbreviation its name. Those letters are A, G, C and T.

SALTY, AND YET SALTIER

What I learned from his chapter is that pee is just salty water with brine pigments that makes it yellow. The more water that a person drinks the less saltier the pee is and the more clear it is. The reason that pee would be less salty and more clear if a person drinks more water is because the kidneys only filters out a certain amount of salt and there is only so much brine pigments to go around. Therefore the less you drink the more yellow and the more salty the pee is. I also learned that seals get their water and food from fish and don't drink sea water.

SOUND.

What I learned from this chapter of The Body Book is that a noise is when something making a movement like a clap, for example, condenses air molecules into an almost spherical shape. When you push your hands together, and when your hands hit each other the air molecules get shoved in to a kind of ripple in the air like when someone throws a pebble into the water it makes a ripple. Well this ripple in the air is almost like that, except for the ripples are round not flat. When the ripples in the air hit your ear it vibrates hairs and your ear drum. When you pick a guitar string it makes a series of ripples and therefore makes the sound of a guitar string vibrating. A high pitched sound is sound waves that are closely spaced. A low pitched sound is sound waves that have more space in between them.

SURVIVAL

What I learned from this chapter of The Body Book is that there are bacteria that have special ways of surviving attacks like raising their antigen poles so igG sauce can't coat them.

VACCINATION

W hat I learned from this part of The Body Book is that when I got my vaccinations for whooping cough and typhoid the bacteria was ground up but it still had its jacket that a virus lives on the surface of the cell so it can live there. The antibodies on the right lymphocytes then hook on to them and multiply to make more lymphocytes with that kind of antibody.

WHAT ABOUT THEM

What I learned from this chapter of The Body Book is that some diseases have no vaccination for many different reasons like the disease is too rare; like plague or it will only live in a living animal and not in a laboratory or there are just to many variations of the same disease.

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