Week 8 – Diseases of the Endocrine System
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Choose a topic from the chapters on diseases of the endocrine system and present it to the class, covering the basics of pathogenesis and prognosis, as well as how it affects you as an embalmer. When posting, approach as if you are discussing the topic with someone with little or no knowledge about the topic. This means you need to provide details to help the person understand. That is what I expect when reading and grading your post. You must include diagrams and graphics to support your post, so make sure you include in your post the significance of why the diagram/graphic is important. Simply including the diagram/graphic will not be enough.
The discussions are a great way to learn and exchange information with others in the class. Students are asked to post on at least two different days of the week. Your post should add to and support the discussions. No posts are accepted after the week closes!
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Week Eight: Discussion Forum
Week Eight: Discussion Forum
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This week we discuss biochemistry. After all this talk of carbon chains, aromatic hydrocarbons, electron valences, and structural formulas it's time to decompress and do something fun.
For this week's discussion I want you to find a recipe of something you like.
This could be something you like to cook yourself or have eaten but have never made. Paste a link to the recipe as part of your discussion. In case you've never used a recipe site, my go-to is www.allrecipes.com but you can use whatever site you like.
Look at the ingredient lists and take a moment to classify three ingredients into their chemical constituents.
For example, if I were to reference :
Phyllo dough is primarily all purpose flour with some salt, vinegar, water, and oil. I find that flour is a mixture of starches and proteins (the gluten). Honey is mixtures of glucose and fructose. Vanilla is a combination of an aldehyde, hydroxyl, and an ether (C8H803) and is a cyclic compound.
I'm not looking for a deep dive into food chemistry, The goal here is to see that even in the food we eat we are performing organic chemistry "behind the scenes" and even in our kitchens we are applying chemical principles.
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