Fiery prion-fuelled nerd enthusiasm

HAHAHAHAHHA
Just finished making syllabus notes for 10 first-column dotpoints of HSC Bio 9.4 'The search for better health'
THAT'S HALF THE FIRST COLUMN DONE
HAHAHAHAHAH
And I understood everything I wrote, unlike when I was note-taking for 9.2... a few months ago... wow, that feels like ages ago. The whole pseudo-Year12 thing kind of screws with my time perception, I think.

Yes, I like the disease topic :T

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Okay yeah who needs horror slasher films when you have this topic? PRIONS, ANYONE? What little I know about prions sounds like the premise for a horror film, seriously. Not a slasher, but you know.

Assuming I have everything right, prions are the smallest pathogens size-wise. They are proteins. Apparently we all have normal prion proteins living in our brains or something, where they're innocuous and non-evil. BUT THEN comes a mutation [in the genes that code for these prions] that causes the normal-prion to flip into a disease-causing form. And these pathogenic prions, despite having no nucleic acid, can reproduce. It's thought that they do this by getting in contact with a normal-prion and turning it into a pathogenic-prion (HORROR MOVIE MUCH AHAHA)... and also, pathogenic prions can't be killed by heat or chemical treatment.

ALSO, DID I MENTION, prion diseases are called 'spongiform', apparently. Because the brains of prion-disease sufferers have holes in them. Just like sponges have holes in them.

...Such nightmare fuel, these little proteinaceous infectious particles.


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On another note, I'm proud of myself because everything up there was written from memory, except for the part in square brackets. And I checked it against my books and it seeeeeeeems to be correct. Probably. Haha. Don't trust me 100% though just in case I somehow botched something. Though why you'd trust a highschool blogger 100% on info on infectious diseases... //dodgydisclaimer

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On another note, I'm not proud of myself for not doing any 4U English at all today.

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Okay that's such a downer note to end this post on. HAHAHA. OH WELL.