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Hattie Marie Simpson
McFarland- Hattie Marie Simpson, age 95, passed away on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at Skaalen Home. She was born in McFarland on January 30, 1918, the daughter of Henry and Regina (Evans) Halverson. Hattie graduated from East High School in 1936. On September 21, 1938 she married Morris Simpson. Hattie was a member of McFarland Lutheran Church. Throughout the years, she thoroughly enjoyed all the visits from her whole family. She loved to bake, especially chocolate chip cookies and brownies for when any of her family stopped by to visit. Hattie also taught many of the family to make lefse but nobody could roll it as thin as she did. Hattie always looked forward to going out to eat with family members, friends, and other relatives. When she was able to take trips, she enjoyed going with her friends with the Weekenders and on fall color trips. On TV, she liked to watch the men's UW basketball games and Lawrence Welk. Hattie was a very loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother and will be missed deeply.
She is survived by her five children, Joy (Don) Lederman, Wayne (Sue) Simpson, Gene (Sue) Simpson, Sue Simpson and Gregg (Brenda) Simpson; eight grandchildren, Lori (Steve) Lederman, Jeff (Julie) Lederman, Mike (Angie) Simpson, Sheri (Maynard) Simpson, Lisa (Matt Coan) Simpson, Sara (Jesse) Sieger, Brittany Simpson, Alyssa (fiancé, Andrew) Simpson; seven great grandchildren, Anna, Rowan, Ava, Evan, Brock, Brody and Justin; sister, Lorraine Swalheim; special cousin, Phyllis Goede; special beautician, Barb Halverson; and many nieces, nephews and cousins. Hattie was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Morris, in 1987; and brothers, Edmund and Harvey.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM on Saturday, March 16, 2013 at McFarland Lutheran Church, 5529 Marsh Road, McFarland, with Rev. Timothy Dean officiating. Burial will follow in Roselawn Memorial Park. Visitation will be held from 9:00 AM until the time of services Saturday at church.
Memorials may be made to Agrace HospiceCare Inc., McFarland Lutheran Church or to Skaalen Home. The family would like to thank Dr. Utrie, Pastor Tim Dean, Pastor Koza, AgraceHospice Care and Skaalen Home for their loving care and support.
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Los Roques advice?
While waiting eagerly for the report on the recent trip to Los Roques, I am seriously considering organizing a DIY trip there for myself and possibly a friend.
I've done a lot of searching and reading, but I thought maybe some of those with some experience in the area could help me with a few specific questions.
I'm looking to do it as economically as possible. Basically, I don't really care about where I stay, as long as I've got a place to sleep and somewhere I can safely store my gear. I will likely get a guide for a few of the days, but hope to DIY on others.
I'd appreciate any input:
- Are prices set in dollars or bolivars? If paying in dollars, do they give you the official or the black market rate? I'm wondering if it is worth buying bolivars at the Caracas airport at the black market rate.
- Aside from noise, does posada location matter much? Are most of the places in the same general area? Does anyone know of a map of Gran Roques showing the location of the posadas?
- If going in February or March, would it be better to book in advance, or show up and bargain for a room on the ground? Any experience with how much you can bargain down the prices if you stay for a week or two?
- What's the cheapest you can get an edible lunch/dinner for on the island (assuming you aren't going full-board)?
- Are there any of the cheaper posadas that give you access to cooking facilities?
- Any specific recommendations on inexpensive posadas?
- Is there any night life on the island?
I've read a fair bit about the opportunities for bonefishing on the islands. It seems that one can get shots at decent numbers of big bones using gummy minnows (particularly around the pelicans), but there are lots of boats and anchor ropes that you need to contend with. It also sounds like you can get a water taxi / day trip out to many of the nearby smaller islands. So:
- Are there any decent DIY flats accessible on the nearby islands? How is the fishing there? Are they disrupted by other activities (sail-boarding, kite-surfing, etc), or can you get away from the crowds?
- Is it true that you are required to have a guide to fish many of the more remote islands? If not, what would it cost to have someone drop you off to DIY fish for the day?
- Are there any decent deals on guiding? Most of the prices I've seen are in the $350/day range for two anglers. Can you do better than that? If so, are the cheaper guides any good?
- Is it possible to find a good guide when you get there? Any recommendations on where to find one, or who to talk to?
I appreciate your wisdom. Hopefully, any answers will help out others as well.
I think that'd be tough there. There are a bunch of lodges (hotels) and restaurants, but the fishing on Grand Roque seemed pretty limited to me. There's great fishing at the end of the runway, and there are really big and smart bones by the docks to tease you, but you'd want to get around too. There are plenty of captains to take you to other islands, so you can get around.
As far as the exchange rate, that really varies. It's anywhere from 4 Bolivars to 1 dollar at the airport, up to 6-7 to 1 from the guy that drove us from the airport. He said the airport had the worst exchange.
Flies. Gummy's floating and regular. Lots of them and use 20lb tippet. And gotchas and small deceivers.
As far as night life, it seems like there was a lot on Saturday night, but it was the last day of their busy season. The rest of the week was quiet, but there was still a lot of partying going on at the clubs. It's a nice island and the food at Acuarela was freakin awesome.
I've only been there once, there are others here who have gone a bunch. Their advice will be better.
Hey Eric
You seem to have done your research pretty well.
I can't really help on the really cheap side of things but a few friends of mine went there several years ago and just arrived and worked it out from there with no real problems.
There are a couple of bars on the island and a disco were the local kids go.
With regard to DIY you can get a taxi to different islands. Kraski for example has a beach that is probably a couple of miles long. At one end there are tourists at the other end it is deserted. You can however catch bonefish in front of beautiful sparsely clad italian girls.
Peter -
It seems you were looking in the wrong direction if you actually knew there were bonefish there :lildevl:
Hot half-naked Italian girls + bonefish = fishing heaven
I appreciate the input so far. Any details are appreciated.
I assume that the mainland black market would give a better rate than on the island. You would thus obviously benefit on things priced in Bolivars if you converted before getting there.
The question then goes to paying for things you see advertised in dollars, i.e., hotels, guides, etc. Do they only accept dollars? If you wanted to pay for these things in Bolivars, what exchange rate do they use? The official or black market rate? If they use something close to the bank rate, you're ahead again.
It presents the odd scenario of converting dollars to Bolivars on the black market (at say 1:9), then going to the bank and converting back (at the official rate of 4.3:1). Double your money each cycle. Repeat often enough and you're a millionaire. I'm sure there must be some obstacle to this.
EDIT: After further research, it looks like it is basically impossible to buy dollars with Bolivars at the official rate. I'm guessing that places with prices in dollars probably either require you to pay in dollars, or charge you the black market rate if you want to pay in Bolivars.
A relevant question is: are most prices on Los Roques set in dollars?
Normally the posadas etc. want dollars. In fact most people on LR would rather use dollars than Bolivars.
I have been then over a dozen times now and have only ever changed about $100 or so just for incedentals.
The tax etc. paid at the airports must be in Bolivars but just about everything else could be paid for in dollars.
All of our tips were in US dollars.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
40% of Americans can't identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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So Fox plans of making a movie about good ol' DBZ, huh? Lord, help us. And before anyone says anything, I've got four words for you: "Street. Fighter. The. Movie."
The first obstacle they're going to have to cross is character designs. How are they going to portray Goku and Vegeta's trademark hairstyles? Let's hope they don't use a molded headpiece like in the "Legacy of Goku" Game Boy commercial.
Second of all, what will the plot be? I doubt Fox's writers can come up with something on their own that "feels" like a Dragonball adventure, and if they use a plot from one of the Sagas, there's no doubt in my mind they'll add unneeded humor or something to dumb it down.
Lastly, it's all a matter of respect. In Japan, anime like DBZ is considered an artform, something artists and animators have spent years creating into something they can be proud of. Here? Nah. Fox just wants to make money off the "next big thing," so they'll slap something together and call it good so they can sell more toys and cards.
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What Phobos tells us about our Moonby Matthew R. Francis Continue reading
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On Mars, the sky is pink during the day, shading to blue at sunset. What planet did you think I was talking about?
Well, it's not quite as simple as that: if you ignore your dear sainted mother's warning and look at the Sun, you'll see that the sky immediately around the Sun is white, and the sky right at the horizon (if you live in a place where you can get an unobstructed view) is much paler. In between the Sun and the horizon, the sky gradually changes hue, as well as varying through the day. That's a good clue to help us answer the question every child has asked: why is the sky blue? Or as a Martian child might ask: why is the sky pink?
First of all, light isn't being absorbed. If you wear a blue shirt, that means the dye in the cotton (or whatever it's made of) absorbs other colors in light, so only blue is reflected back to your eye. That's not what's happening in the air! Instead, light is being bounced off air molecules, a process known as scattering. Air on Earth is about 80% nitrogen, with almost all of the rest being oxygen, so those are the main molecules for us to think about.
As I discussed in my earlier article on fluorescent lights, atoms and molecules can only absorb light of certain colors, based on the laws of quantum mechanics. While oxygen and nitrogen do absorb some of the colors in sunlight, they turn right around and re-emit that light. (I'm oversimplifying slightly, but the main thing is that photons aren't lost to the world!) However, other colors don't just pass through atoms as though they aren't there: they can still interact, and the way we determine how that happens is again the color.
The color of light is determined by its wavelength: how far a wave travels before it repeats itself. Wavelength is also connected to energy: short wavelengths (blue and violet light) have high energy, while long wavelengths (red light) have lower energy. When a photon (a particle of light) hits a nitrogen or oxygen molecule, it might hit one of the electrons inside the molecule. Unless the wavelength is exactly right, the photon doesn't get absorbed and the electron doesn't move, so all the photon can do is bounce off, like a pool ball off the rail on a billiards table. Low-energy red photons don't change direction much after bouncing–they hit the electron too gently for that. Higher-energy blue and violet photons, on the other hand, scatter by quite a bit: they end up moving in a very different direction after hitting an electron than they moving before. This whole process is known technically as Rayleigh scattering, for the physicist John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh.
Not every photon will hit a molecule as it passes through the atmosphere, and light from the Sun contains all the colors mixed together into white light. That means if you look directly at the Sun or the sky right around the Sun during broad daylight, what you see is mostly unscattered light, the photons that pass through the air unmolested, making both Sun and sky look white. (By the way, your body is pretty good at making sure you won't damage your vision: your reflexes will usually twitch your eyes away before any injury happens. I still don't recommend looking at the Sun directly for any length of time, especially with sunglasses, which can fool your reflexes into thinking everything is safer than it really is.) In other parts of the sky away from the Sun, scattering is going to be more significant.
The Sun is a long way away, so unlike a light bulb in a house, the light we get from it comes in parallel beams. If you look at a part of the sky away from the Sun, in other words, you're seeing scattered light! Red light doesn't get scattered much, so not much of that comes to you, but blue light does, meaning the sky appears blue to our eyes. Bingo! Since there is some green and other colors mixed in as well, the apparent color of the sky is more a blue-white than a pure blue.
(The Sun's light doesn't contain as much violet light as it does blue or red, so we won't see a purple sky. It also helps that our eyes don't respond strongly to violet light. The cone cells in our retinas are tuned to respond to blue, green, and red, so the other colors are perceived by triggering combinations of the primary cone cells.)
At sunset, light is traveling through a lot more air than it does at noon. That means every ray of light has more of a chance to scatter, removing the blue light before it reaches our eyes. What's left is red light, making the sky at the horizon near the Sun appear red. In fact, you see more gradations of color too: moving your vision higher in the sky, you'll note red shades into orange into yellow and so forth, but each color is less intense.
So finally: why is the Martian sky pink? The answer is dust: the surface of Mars is covered in a fine powder, more like talcum than sand. During the frequent windstorms that sweep across the planet, this dust is blown high into the air, where light (yes) scatters off of it. Since the grains are larger than air molecules, the kind of scattering is different, and tends to make the light appear red. (Actually, the sky's "true" color is very hard to determine, since there is a lot more variation than on Earth.) When there is less dust in the atmosphere, the Martian sky is a deep blue, when the Sun's light scatters off the carbon dioxide molecules in the air.
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By DXS Physics Editor Matthew Francis, who usually brings you Everyday Science. As you will see, this is science of the Not-So-Everyday sort.
Perhaps the most important question to ask in science is "how do we know?" While it's appropriate to ask this every day, today it feels even more so, as we prepare to witness a very rare astronomical event. This time, it's happening on June 5, 2012; when this event occurred during the 18th century, it allowed astronomers to make the first precision measurements of the size of our Solar System. Captain James Cook, best known for his exploration of the Pacific (for Europe, that is—the natives already knew what was there), took a set of scientific instruments aboard his ship to Tahiti; other teams of researchers took measurements at those locations.
The rare event they observed was the transit of Venus: when Venus travels directly between Earth and the Sun, blocking a tiny amount of light. Astronomers in different locations timed the crossing of Venus across the Sun's disc, and by comparing their numbers, were able to determine the distance between Earth and the Sun. With that distance in hand, they were able to calibrate the size of the entire Solar System. The 1769 observation was an international scientific effort (to use modern language), and while the results weren't as good as the astronomers of the day had hoped, they still agreed with modern measurements.
Today we use a variety of techniques to measure distances, including radar ranging (bouncing radio waves off planets and timing the round trip), so we don't have to wait for Venus transits anymore—which is good, since they aren't common! The last Venus transit was in 2004, but the previous one before that was in 1882, and the next one will be in 2117. I got up very early in the morning on June 8, 2004, joining some fellow astronomy enthusiasts at the Rutgers observatory, where we took the photo you see at the top of the post.
The seemingly odd intervals between transits are because Earth's and Venus' orbits around the Sun don't lie in the same plane. If you draw Earth's orbit as an ellipse on a sheet of cardboard, and Venus' orbit on another sheet of cardboard, they need to overlap in a small X pattern, as shown in the picture. The only times Venus will transit is when both Earth and Venus are on the same side of the Sun, and only when they are in the region where the cardboard pieces overlap. The angle (3.5°) in the picture is correct, but I've exaggerated the size of the Sun and the sizes of the "transit zones"; in truth, even though the Sun is huge compared to Earth, it's not that big on the sky. If you do the real calculation, you find that Venus transits happen roughly twice per century, and those two events are separated by 8 years. It's a rare and wonderful event!
If you want to view the Venus transit, the first thing you should do is see if it will be visible where you live. (Hopefully the weather will cooperate too! Such is the life of an astronomer.) In Richmond, Virginia (where I live), the transit begins around 6 PM. If you're in the area, the Science Museum of Virginia is hosting a free viewing on the lawn; many other cities and towns have similar events.
A common sense warning: please don't look directly at the Sun! However, you don't need fancy equipment or a big observatory to witness the transit. Two weeks ago, I observed the solar eclipse using nothing but a microwave macaroni-and-cheese container. By piercing a hole in the bottom of the tub, I created a simple pinhole camera. A small and kind of fuzzy image of the eclipse appeared on a piece of paper, which I photographed. (Obviously you can do better if you have better equipment—I happened to be far from home during the eclipse and used what I had on hand.) A piece of cardboard covered in aluminum foil with a small hole works better, and you can project the image right onto the sidewalk, the side of a building, or another screen.
If you have a pair of binoculars that use glass lenses (since plastic will melt), point the larger lens toward the Sun and the smaller lens onto a flat surface. (Again, don't look through the binoculars if you value your eyeballs!) If you have a telescope with a mirror or glass lenses, you can also project the image onto a flat surface, or create a sun funnel. There are a lot of ways to view the Sun if the ones I mention don't appeal to you.
As a word of caution: the Venus transit won't look as impressive as a solar eclipse, since Venus is a lot farther away than the Moon. It will appear to be a small round shadow on the Sun's disc. The thrill (for me at least) lies in the knowledge: you are viewing a planet not much smaller than Earth as it crosses between us and our home star! If it isn't enough these events are rare, think of how significant it is to catch a glimpse of the sheer size of our Solar System, in a way we don't usually get to see. And always, always remember to ask the question: "how do we know?"
If you want to know more about transits and why they are still scientifically important today, try these links:
Happy Venus-watching!
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The Sun will rise on the morning of December 22 and find most of humanity still living. I can say that with a great deal of confidence, though my scientist's brain tells me I should say the world "probably" won't end tomorrow. After all, there's a tiny chance, a minuscule probability…but it's so small we don't have to worry about it, just like we don't have to worry about being struck down by a meteorite while walking down the street. It could happen, but it almost certainly won't.
My confidence comes from science. I know it sounds hokey, but it's true. There's no scientific reason—absolutely none—to think the world will end tomorrow. Yes, the world will end one day, and Earth has experienced some serious cataclysms in the past that wiped out a significant amount of life, but none of those things are going to happen tomorrow. (I'll come back to those points in a bit.) We're very good at science, after centuries of work, and the kinds of violent events that could seriously threaten us won't take us by surprise.
So where does this stuff come from? Whose idea was it that "the end of the world will be on December 21, 2012"? The culprit, according to those who buy into the idea, is that the end of the world was predicted by the Mayas in their mythology, and codified in their calendar. However, it's pretty safe to say that the Mayas didn't really predict the end of the world, even though I don't know much about the great Mayan civilization that existed on the Yucatan peninsula in what is now Mexico from antiquity until the Spanish conquest.
|See this calendar? It's being touted as a Mayan
calendar in articles about the "end of the world",
but it ain't Mayan. It's an Aztec calendar. Please
don't mix up civilizations.
The Mayas were the only people in the Americas known to have developed a complete written language, which is part of how we know a lot about them despite their destruction by the hand of European invaders. In particular, we know about their calendar, and the divisions they used. We use what's called a decimal system for numbers, based on the 10 fingers of our hands. That's why we break things up into decades (ten years) and centuries (ten decades), as well as a millennium (ten centuries). The Mayas liked different divisions of time: their b'ak'tun is approximately 394 years, and they placed a certain significance on a cycle of 13 b'ak'tuns. (I suspect the Klingon language in Star Trek borrowed some of its vocabulary from ancient Mayan.)
In the "Long Count," one version of the Mayan calendar known to us, the present world came to be on August 11, 3114 BC. That world will end at the close of the 13th b'ak'tun from that creation day, which happens to be December 21, 2012. However, there's good reason to think that the Mayas didn't believe this would be the end of all things: other calendars exist that refer to an even longer span of years, stretching thousands of years into the future!
Even more importantly, though: the Mayan cosmology (their view of the universe) was cyclic, as in many other religions. This world was not the first in this cosmology, and it won't be the last. In such a view, the true universe is eternal, and the cycles of time are a kind of divine rebooting, which don't really end anything. The end of the 13th b'ak'tun might be a transformative event in the Maya cosmology, but it's not the end of the world.
Frankly, I'm not sure why we should care even if the Mayas did believe this was the end of the world. As I said previously, there's no scientific reason to think the world will end tomorrow. But maybe you might think there's a non-scientific reason—divine intervention to wipe out the Earth, perhaps. However, I'd venture to guess that most of us don't adhere to the Mayan religion. Their gods are not the gods most people worship. The prophesied arrival on Earth of Bolon Yookte' K'Uh, the Nine-Footed God is not something central to my belief system, and probably not yours either.
In fact, millennial thinking is far more a Christian thing than it is a Mayan thing—or frankly most other religions. When people talk about the supposed end of the world tomorrow, they use the Christian terminology: Armageddon (referring to Megiddo, a place in northern Israel, named in the Book of Revelation as the site of the last battle) or the apocalypse (literally the "uncovering", when all that was hidden becomes revealed). These weren't concepts in the Mayan religion, and nothing in the Christian religion says the world will end on December 21, 2012.
Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.–Robert Frost
Science tells us the world won't end tomorrow. It also tells us the Mayan cosmology is wrong: time doesn't go in cycles forever. Earth began 4.5 billion years ago, and will end in about 5 billion years more—at least as a livable world, which is what counts for us. In between its beginning and end, it is defined by cycles: the length of rotation (days) and the time to travel around the Sun (years), with its associated seasons. Other cycles are pretty arbitrary: centuries and b'ak'tuns don't have any particular significance in terms of astronomical events.
The end of the world as we know it will happen in about 5 billion years, when the Sun ceases fusing hydrogen into helium in its core. When that happens, the Sun will grow into a red giant star, swallowing up Mercury and Venus. Earth probably won't be devoured, but with the Sun's surface so much closer, things will become distinctly unpleasant. It's unlikely the atmosphere or oceans could survive, meaning the end of most life. (Some microbes could probably continue to live underground. That kind of thing is a story for another day.) However, 5 billion years is a long time from now.
Could another cataclysm overtake us before that time? Yes. As you may know, about 65 million years ago, a large asteroid smashed into Earth, an event that at least helped end the reign of dinosaurs, and ushering the extinction of many other species.
Unfortunately, we can't rule out the possibility that could happen again. There are enough asteroids and comets in our Solar System that could eventually cross orbital paths with Earth; if a large specimen collided with us, it would be devastating.
However, we're talking about tomorrow. No asteroid will strike Earth on December 21: astronomers keep careful track of everything near our planet, and nothing we know of is on a collision course with Earth for the near future. Asteroids and comets are really the only things we have to worry about doing serious damage for life on Earth, but you can sleep easy tonight and tomorrow night: we're safe.
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daylight hours, here's how they would
appear tomorrow at noon. There's no
alignment. (You can see this for yourself
using the free planetarium program
Some people have talked about fairly far-fetched ideas: alignments of planets, or lining up Earth, the Sun, and the center of the galaxy. The planets of the Solar System aren't aligned tomorrow—the image shows where several of them are in relation to the Sun at noon. Jupiter isn't anywhere close to the planets you see. You'd need a pretty strong imagination to say they're lined up in any way: while they do lie along a line, that's the way they always are, since they all orbit the Sun more or less in the same plane. Alignment with the galactic center is even more simple to dismiss: about once a year, the Sun appears aligned with the galactic center in the sky. And nothing happens.
Another explanation I've seen involves a mysterious planet called "Nibiru" or "Planet X," which either will collide with Earth or otherwise generate a baleful influence. Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer, has a lot about the Nibiru nonsense, so I won't repeat what he says. Suffice to say Nibiru doesn't exist: there's no evidence for it, and (surprise!) it's not anything that came from Mayan mythology to begin with, so there's no reason to associate it with a December 21 apocalypse.
Science, I think, is reassuring in the midst of panic. Why people like to scare themselves and others with misguided ideas of the world's end, I am not qualified to say. I don't know how many people are convinced the world will end tomorrow, compared with the number of people who are either wholly skeptical or those who might be a little worried. However, let me reassure you again: the world will not end tomorrow. We can take comfort in the knowledge that December 22 will come, 2012 will end, and a new year—a new cycle—will begin. Any remaking of the world is up to us, so rather than worrying about imaginary apocalypses, let's commit to improving the lives of those who live on our magnificent planet.
Double X Extra: A monomer is a building block (mono = one) and a polymer is a chain of monomers. With a few dozen monomers or building blocks, we get millions of different polymers. That may sound nutty until you think of the infinity of values that can be built using only the numbers 0 through 9 as building blocks or the intricate programming that is done using only a binary code of zeros and ones in different combinations.
Double X Extra: The specific reaction that hooks one monomer to another in a covalent bond is called dehydration synthesis because in making the bond–synthesizing the larger molecule–a molecule of water is removed (dehydration). The reverse is hydrolysis (hydro = water; lysis = breaking), which breaks the covalent bond by the addition of a molecule of water.
Double X Extra: We call a fatty acid a fatty acid because it's got a carboxylic acid attached to a fatty tail. A triglyceride consists of three of these fatty acids attached to a molecule called glycerol. Our dietary fat primarily consists of these triglycerides.
Double X Extra: A triglyceride can have up to three different fatty acids attached to it. Canola oil, for example, consists primarily of oleic acid, linoleic acid, and linolenic acid, all of which are unsaturated fatty acids with 18 carbons in their chains.
Double X Extra: A hormone is a blood-borne signaling molecule. It can be lipid based, like testosterone, or short protein, like insulin.
Biohazard!The names associated with nucleic acids can be confusing because they all start with nucle-. It may seem obvious or easy now, but a brain freeze on a test could mix you up. You need to fix in your mind that the shorter term (10 letters, four syllables), nucleotide, refers to the smaller molecule, the three-part building block. The longer term (12 characters, including the space, and five syllables), nucleic acid, which is inherent in the names DNA and RNA, designates the big, long molecule.
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