What is Hair? Preview CT-STEM

Hair Data Analysis

Do tests for glucose, starch, lipids, and protein on human hair as instructed by your teacher or use the "Hair Macromolecule Tests" file on page 0 of this lesson to answer the following questions.

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

Question 3.1

SAQ: What is hair made of? How do you know?

Question 3.2

How do you know your tests worked?

Question 3.3

Did your findings agree with your predictions? Explain.

Question 3.4

SAQ: How does this information fit into the idea(s) you have about how Maria's (right) and Lucy's (left) hair color is different?

Question 3.5

What questions would we need to be able to answer to figure out how these sisters (and other people) get their hair or different hair colors (minimum of 2)?

Notes

These notes will appear on every page in this lesson so feel free to put anything here you'd like to keep track of.