Wow, I can't believe this class is already over! it was so fun not only to learn about different chemicals in the last part of the class and to create and execute my very own lab about water ways! Both my final projects work is included in the link (about the water ways and how Daphnia can be affected from different over the counter drugs) and this link (about drugs legalization and chemical structures with reactions to interacting chemicals).
In this class I learned most about drugs and different interactions they can have with each other (in warm ups before class we would work on balancing equations that have chemical formulas included within them). I not only learned more about Chemistry but I learned a little math with moles (not the animal or the thing on your body!), which are the amount of atoms in a chemical substance. We also worked on dividing and multiplying fractions to go with our warm up questions (which I never was very good at so I got more practice). Yet, if I would do something different this semester I would have tried to connect my lab experiment to my drug debate because I was looking how different drugs affect Daphnia and my argument for my drug Buspirone was how it negatively and positively affects people. Based on my lab design what I would redo would used a larger tank to hold the Daphnia and study for if the drugs affect their reproductive abilities, but I would keep the same drugs that I chose since those are the most used and familiar common medication and I could show the best results using them. Some of the reactions that happened with the Daphnia lab that I wasn't expecting was when using the Adivil's and Aspirin when that Daphnia stopped moving to eat algae this crystallization would form around them killing them instantly, taking all the oxygen. On a different note, with my drug debate on Buspirone (Buspar) I learned the most about the structure of it and how it treats a section of natural substances in the brain (neurotransmitters). The elements in the drug (Buspirone) are HydroChloride, Nitrogyen, Oxygen, and Carbonate. Also learned how dangerous anti-depressants can be along with anti-anxiety drugs can be and that by building a tolerance to different dosages you can later become addictive from having to need higher dosages to treat your illness. What I hope the audience remembers is that sometimes what commercials and doctors tell you is not always to fully benefit you because they are still trying to get money and they won't always tell you studies that found the drug to be dangerous or not as efficient as other possible one.
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