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What I learned out of this chapter is that the egg after it has
been fertilized it divides 16 times into a solid ball of cells.
After this has happened some of the cells that were on the ball
of cells depart and that leaves a capsule for the Embryo to grow
in. I also learned that as soon as the fertilized egg becomes
a capsule it sends off Hormone chemicals that tell the Womb lining
to stay in place. I also learned that the capsule digs into the
Womb lining and at this time the capsule is about the size of
a pin head.

BABY FUZZY.

What I learned from this chapter is that at 20 weeks old the
baby will have finger nails and toe nails, the baby will also
have finger prints. Its skin will be covered in a fine down and
it has eye brows. By 26 weeks the baby’s eyes are starting to
open and its eye lids have lashes. By 28 weeks the baby’s head
will have hair. By 36 weeks old the baby is getting plump and
it is making a brownish fat that acts like heating pads. I also
learned that if you spray a lemon scented spray in to a pregnant
mother rat its baby’s won’t feed from there mothers nipples unless
they are lemon scented too. I also learned that a baby recognizes
the smell of her mother’s milk by a week after birth.

BABY TUMBLE

What I learned from this chapter is that the Fetus nearly doubles
in size at the beginning of the 9th week to the end of the twelfth
week. I also learned that if the baby kicks inside its mother
it goes tumbling and when it is inside its oxygenated water balloon
the Fetus won’t even feel a bump. I also learned that most of
the movements that a Fetus does seem to be for practice only.

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BONES

What I learned from this chapter is that a Ligament is a cell
that holds bones together. I also learned that a muscle is a large
group of muscle "fibers" that are just encased in a cocoon.

BUILD

What I learned from this chapter is that if you pull the tendon
on the leg of a dead turkey the claws will close together and
that is what a leg would do on a live turkey. That is also how
a bird holds on to a perch. I also learned that cells inside bones
are called Osteoclasts "bone destroyers" and Osteoblastes "bone
makers." What happens is a Osteoclasts get into the bone and eat
away and then the Osteoblasts come and build more bone. When this
happens doctors call it ossified bone. A X-ray can show an ossified
bone.

CONTRACT AND RELAX

What I learned from this chapter is that a catapillar moves by
contracting and relaxing its muscles. I also learned that a muscle
needs a skeleton or a bone to work. I also learned that a hydra
moves by doing a somersault over and over again.

DENTAL WORK

What I learned from this chapter if that bone builders try to
space teeth evenly and if a baby loses a tooth before it had replacements
in its mouth the bone builder will rearrange the teeth and that
would leave gaps in between teeth.

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MY BODY

What I learned from this chapter is that all the nucleus in my
body have twenty- three pairs of Chromosomes and that all the
chromosomes get pulled apart by pairs of cylinders and make two
new nuclei in the mother cell. The mother cell divides making
two new cells which are called the daughters. While the chromosomes
are being pulled apart they look like sewing string being pulled
apart in the middle and material that is floating around in the
cells fluids is to make other chromosomes. I also learned that
the egg that I grew in was one out of 300 to 400; and that the
sperm that fertilized it was one out of hundreds of millions.
Another thing that I learned is that the mother cell makes preparations
to separate, like growing extra "membranes" so that it won’t burst
when it squeezes in two. I also learned that I share half of my
father’s genes and half of my mothers. Another thing that I learned
is that my body starts copying my chromosomes before they ever
started dividing and that the first time that a cell divided in
me was just a few hours after the egg that I was, was fertilized.

FAT!

What I learned from this chapter is that a woman is born with
more fat cells than boys. The reason is that they use more fat
in their life than a man – from making room for a baby and putting
more calcium in their bones. I also learned that if a fat cell
wasn’t heeled together by so many collagen strands they would
just roll around in my body.

FUSING

What I learned from this chapter is that a baby is born with 350
bones but a hundred forty-four of the bones fuse to give the adult
number 206. I also learned that this number isn’t always accurate
because some times the person might have an extra rib. Another
thing I learned is that the skull of a baby takes a while for
the plates to fuse and parents get worried when their baby looks
deformed.

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GENES

What I learned out of this chapter is that by the time an embryo
is nine weeks old ‘a fetus’ it can fit comfortably inside a peanut
shell. I also learned that the male and female genitals look and
start out exactly the same and you can not tell them apart until
it is at least a fetus. The way that the egg knows what kind of
genital to produce is by what the sperm that fertilized has on
board. If the sperm brought a chromosome that is an "x" gene then
both egg and sperm genes are x then it is female but if it is
a "y" gene then it is a boy. The way that the genes work to tell
the egg what to produce is if the gene is a y gene then it like
turns on a switch and it will produce a boy or if it is an x,
then it will not.

HAIR

What I learned out of this chapter is that hair of some 7000
years old is still just as strong as a healthy hair that is alive
or growing now. Another thing that I learned is that a healthy
hair can stretch 11/2 it’s regular size and stretch back. I also
learned that a strand of hair is stronger or just as strong as
a steel cable the same diameter.

HARD TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE

What I learned from this chapter is that after 9 weeks the embryo
can be called a Fetus and it’s stubs that were its arms have grown
identifiable into hands and feet and have toes and fingers but
they are still held together by little webs that when the baby
grows they will be stubby, and I have them. I also learned that
a bat, donkey, whale and human embryos all look the same at six
weeks old. After 5 weeks and starting on the six the embryos uncovered
eyes point sideways and the rest of the face you can hardly see
under the bulging brain. I also learned that every animal makes
two sets of kidneys before finishing their final pair.

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HEALING CELLS

What I learned out of this chapter is that a mast cell causes
itching by putting out a chemical and if you put the itch under
the hottest water you can stand it will make the Mast cell put
out all its chemicals that it has and it will take it hours to
make more chemicals and during those hours the itch wont itch
a bit. I also learned that if take a Fibroblast from one cut to
another one that it will do just as good a job on the one that
you put it on that it did on the cut that it was on, when a fibroblast
goes to a twisted ankle or wrist it changes its shape entirely
to make cartilage that will hold the wound together.

IT”S GROWING!

What I learned from this chapter is that at 20 weeks old the
baby has toe nails and finger nail and also has finger and toe
prints, its skin is covered with a fine down and it has eye brows.
By 26 weeks its eyes are starting to open and its eye lids have
eye lashes. By 28 weeks the head will have hair. By 36 weeks the
Fetus is getting plump and it makes pads of brownish fat that
act like heating pads. I also learned that if you inject a lemon
scented odor into a pregnant rat’s belly, that the mice won’t
suck on the nipples unless they are lemon scented too and that
a baby recognizes it’s mother’s milk by smell a week after birth.

LINE THE BONE UP

What I learned from this chapter is why a doctor puts a cast
on a serious break in a bone. A doctor puts a cast on a serious
bone break because chondroblasts fill in the broken part of the
bone to make it whole again but it doesn’t always heal the bone
strait; so a doctor puts a cast on the break to get the bones
relined. I also learned that the human jaw and teeth have been
shrinking through out the years of evolution and that the human
of this time has the smallest jaw of our species.

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MUSCLES

What I learned from this chapter is that muscles don’t grow by
adding muscle fibers to the muscle. They grow by expanding and
enlarging the muscle fibers they all ready had. I also learned
that if an athlete took a drug like steroids, it gives that athlete
a high chance of becoming balled or stunting their growth for
ever.

NEW BONE,OLD BONE

What I learned from this chapter is that there isn’t a bone in
me that is over a decade old. The reason that there isn’t a bone
that is a decade old is because old bone is always being eaten
away by Osteoclasts and then being rebuilt by Osteoblasts and
this eventually makes a new bone. There is nothing wrong with
the old bones. The reason that old bones are made over is because
that is what our bodies are made to do.

RED MEAT, WHITEMEAT

What I learned from this chapter is that red meat is red because
it is made for enduring a long time of, say, walking and so it
needs allot of fat, oxygen, blood and oxygen. White meat is white
because it has less blood going to it. I also learned that an
adult pumps 1 1/2 gallons per minute.

SHEDDING SHELL

What I learned from this chapter is that an exoskeleton does
not grow with the body that it encases. A crab, for example has
to shed its exoskeleton to grow and then an exoskeleton has to
regrow over the larger animal that the crab has become.

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SKIN

What I learned out of this chapter is that the cell responsible
for the itch that you get from a mosquito bite is a mast cell.
The mast cell’s name comes from the German word pig, the reason
that we call the cell this is because it is a plump cell. There
are also other cells that come to the scratch. Some of cells that
come are a fibroblast, and a white cell. Each of the cells have
its own job to do.

STARTING OFF

What I learned from this chapter is that every person begins as
a single cell no bigger than a period and inside that cell there
is a Nucleus and inside that Nucleus is a strand of information
that is equal to 100,000 words which is about the size of a three-hundred
page book. I also learned that scientists are only now starting
to understand how that and when the information is stretched out
end to end tied together it won’t even reach the end of my pinkie.

THE EGG CHANGES

What I learned from this chapter is that by the time that two
weeks pass the capsule is about the size of a capital O. The hole
where the Embryo dug into the lining has closed up behind it.
The Embryo has hardly changed at all, although the capsule has
become a pancake two cells thick. I also learned that over the
next few days this complicated machine held by cords to the womb
starts to act like a "space ship" taking food and putting its
waste in its mother.

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TOP HEAVY.

What I learned from this chapter is that two weeks before birth
the baby does one last somersault to prepare for birth. The reason
that a baby is able to land head first when they do that somersault
is because the baby is top heavy.

UGLY BABY STAGE

What I learned today from this chapter is that the Embryo goes
through an "ugly stage," the beginning of this Ugly stage starts
with a dent or grove in the Embryo that grows over the back tail
and then to about the middle of the Embryo, there it forms a pit.
I also learned that the bottom of this pit continues to grow into
the Embryo and makes a solid rod. The rod is a place marker to
show where the back bone, spinal cord, brain and ribs were to
begin. I also learned that the embryo has to do so much twisting
and turning that it gets caught up in its own amniotic sack.

ZITS, AAAAAH!

What learned from this chapter is that the way a body controls
acne is by putting a sack around the germ so it won’t spread to
other hair follicles.

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