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JOKES: #1:He has two brain cells. One is lost, and the other is out looking for it #2:Cell about to undergo mitosis to an interested geneticist: "I hope I have your divided attention" #3:Brain cells come and go but fat cells live forever #4:Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. #5:DNA molecule: "I hate being a DNA molecule. There is so much to remember!" #6:My mother taught me about GENETICS..."You are just like your father!" #7:Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should. #8:I have been a lousy swimmer right from the start – my DNA almost drowned in its gene pool. #9:Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division. #10:Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking. #11:Did you hear about the biologist who had twins? She baptized one and kept the other as a control. #12:Do molecular biologists wear designer genes? :

HAIR CELLS
(^they're in your ear)

click on the pictures below to learn about the different parts of the hair cell

For an elaboration on how hearing works, click here

CYTOKERATINS

KINOCILIUM

CUTICULAR PLANE

STERIOCILIUM

JUNCTIONAL COMPLEX

MICROTUBULES (TUBULIN)

CILIA

ACTIN

-this is a video from bcm.edu that shows the hair shaft cell working.

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