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water is like a magnet because it's charges are funky

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water is like a magnet because it's charges are funky

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Nucleic acids funtion is to make DNA and RNA

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Nucleic acids funtion is to make DNA and RNA

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The monomer of Carbohydrates are monsacarides

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The monomer of Carbohydrates are monsacarides

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The function of carbs is quick energy, long term energy is lipds, and nucleic acids do DNA stuff.

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We learned about acids...
And basic stuff

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Soap makes pepper sink because it breaks the bonds into micelles.

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The night had gotten even hotter, and running home felt like swimming as fast as she could through boiling soup.
That's not just heat. It's humidity.

So she runs into the house and sees that the lights are all burned out, and everything is dark. And since this is a tense, serious situation where every single second might mean life and death... Clary stops to talk to the crazy old lady who lives downstairs. Instead of... you know, ignoring her and running upstairs.

"Your mother," Dorothea said, "has been making a godawful racket up there. What's she doing? Moving furniture?"

Does the crone think that you smash furniture when you move it?

The old bag rambles about how Luke needs to change the light bulbs and wash the skylight, because she basically likes to make him do free work for her once she's roped him in. What does this have to do with what's going on upstairs?

So having spent precious minutes listening to a crazy old lady, Clary goes upstairs and finds the door open, the windows open, and the place has been completely trashed. That even applies to the paintings, which have been ripped apart for reasons I can only speculate on, and which I don't think are ever explained.

What if robbers had come, what if her mother had put up a fight-?
What kind of robbers didn't take a wallet with them, or the TV, the DVD player, or the expensive laptops?

WHERE ARE THEY GETTING ALL THIS MONEY?

I'll admit this is actually a pretty effective scene, and you do feel sorry for Clary as she freaks out and runs around, trying to locate her mother. For the first time in this book, it feels like a wholly natural, raw reaction.

Then the demon shows up.

No, not kidding: It was crouched against the floor, a long, scaled creature with a cluster of flat black eyes set dead center in the front of its domed skull. Something like a cross between an alligator and a centipede, it had a thick, flat snout and a barbed tail that whipped menacingly from side to side. Multiple legs bunched underneath it as it readied itself to spring.

White dress... S&M overtones... asshole "hero"... bizarre creatures that you can't even imagine existing... THIS IS WIZARD'S FIRST RULE! RUN! RUUUUUUN!

I'm okay, I'm okay.

Clary has a fairly natural reaction to seeing this thing, namely screaming and staggering around while the thing tries to bite her head off. And really, Clare is pretty good at the gross creepiness of the monster.

A long black tongue flickered out between its jaws as it gurgled and hissed. To her horror Clary realized that the noises it was making were words.
"Girl," it hissed. "Flesh. Blood. To eat, oh, to eat."

"I've only had McDonald's for a whole week. I need real food!"

It continues creepily advancing while talking about eating her, and Clary's attempts to bash it with framed photos are pretty useless. Plot convenience to the rescue!

Plunging her hand inside, she drew out the plastic thing she'd taken from Jace. The Sensor was shuddering, like a cell phone set to vibrate. The hard material was almost painfully hot against her palm.
If you're wondering what this thing is... it's basically a demon detection device. So, yeah, essentially worthless in this kind of situation.

It pins her down and comments that it's not allowed to eat her, but then adds, "Valentine will never know. He said nothing about a girl. Valentine will not be angry." Exactly how many mentions of Valentine do the Shadowhunters need before they get off their asses and actually DO something?

Eh, I shouldn't be complaining. If there's one thing we find out the Shadowhunters have in spades, it's arrogance. And bigotry. But also incompetence.

Clary promptly smashes it in the face... and manages to jam her hand right into its mouth, which is full of acidic green drool. Way to go, Clary. But fortunately she has the Sensor in her hand, and the demon is stupid enough to swallow it. Yes, it actually swallows it.

All joking aside, I do like that Clary doesn't manage to kill the demon deliberately. This was one of the things that pissed me off about the movie adaptation, because there is no way a person being pursued by a ravenous demon that wants to eat her alive should be thinking clearly about the right way to kill it. It's at least an attempt at being realistic here, and makes Clary slightly less Suey. For the moment.

Suddenly the thing began to twitch. Spasming uncontrollably, it rolled off Clary and onto its back, multiple legs churning the air. Black fluid poured from its mouth.

"GMOs! They poisoned us, precious!"

Clary starts stumbling away from it, only to get knocked out when something whacks her in the back of the head. Fortunately, there was no brain to damage.

When she wakes up, She was lying on cold damp grass. The night sky rippled overhead, the pewter gleam of stars washed out by city lights. Can you even see the stars in NYC? I mean, I live in a far less populated area, and the light pollution makes it almost impossible to see the stars.

Of course, Jace is there because... hold on.

1. How does Jace know where she lives?

2. No, seriously. How does he know? As far as I remember, this question is NEVER answered.

3. And I don't think the Shadowhunters have any actual method of tracking people down, probably because it would involve talking to mundanes and they don't roll that way.

4. This was actually handled much better in the TV show, where they have this supercomputer rig that Isabelle uses. So it's actually plausible that they could track someone down.

5. And come to think of it... why did it take Jace so fucking long to get to Clary's apartment? If he knew where it was, why did he arrive so late?

6. She's an ordinary person with no magical enhancements, and yet she arrived several minutes before he did. Did he take the scenic route?

7. It's even dumber because it's not like the creature leapt on Clary the moment she opened the door. She spent a few minutes nattering to Dorothea, and then wandered around her apartment for a few more minutes. By all rights, even if he was following her and didn't head straight for her apartment, he should have arrived right after her instead of a LONG-ass time later.

8. So what was Jace doing, gelling his hair?

9. Or did he arrive in time, but just sat there and let her almost get her face melted by a hungry demon?

It turns out the Ravener demon shot a stinger into Clary's neck, so she's been poisoned.

"That thing-the monster-it talked." Clary was shuddering uncontrollably.

You just choked a demonic centipedigator to death with a thing you stole from an invisible demon-slayer. Why is TALKING the surprising part?

So after some padding, Jace reveals that the poison will kill her within the house if she doesn't come with him, but she's a bit woozy and having trouble focusing.

To make matters worse, the police have arrived... and at least one of them is a demon.

One of them, a slim blond woman, held a flashlight in one hand. As she raised it, Clary saw the hand was fleshless, a skeleton hand sharpened to bone points at the fingertips.
I honestly would love to know how a skeleton demon would keep itself together. I mean, bones only stick together because of cartilage and tendons and ligaments... so what keeps demon skeletons together? Sheer force of will?

Clary starts coughing up blood just then, so Jace whips out his long thick friend.

No, not that one. It's a long silvery phallic object, which he uses to draw a symbol on her skin.

This one looked like a set of overlapping circles.
"What's that supposed to do?"

Advertise the Olympics, I guess.

He slid the thing Clary had thought was a knife back into his belt. It was a long, luminous cylinder, as thick around as an index finger and tapering to a point. "My stele," he said.

Oh for the love of...

1. A stele is a standing pillar or stone slab with writing on it, often a gravestone or memorial. It's derived from the word "pillar" or "standing block."

2. For instance, the Code of Hammurabi was put on a stele.

3. Alternately, it can be the vascular portion of a plant.

4. I've checked multiple dictionaries, and as far as I can tell, there is no definition of "stele" that includes a writing tool.

5. Hell, Jace himself is closer to a stele than that phallic thing on his belt, since he's got things written on his skin.

6. I'm pretty sure Clare just mixed up the word "stele" with "stylus," which is a manipulative writing utensil, and which would've actually worked as a name for that item.

7. This is even weirder because this book was written in 2007. Smart phones had been around for several years.... including ones with styli.

8. IT'S STYLUS, NOT STELE.

I just.... ugh, back to the story. Apparently Jace doesn't know any first-aid marks, because Clary promptly swoons right into Jace's manly arms. How convenient that his plan to kidnap her now has a handy excuse!

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City of Bones Chapter 4 - satireknight-snarks

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The night had gotten even hotter, and running home felt like swimming as fast as she could through boiling soup. That's not just heat. It's humidity. So she runs into the house and sees that the lights are all burned out, and everything is dark.

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We learned about the 3 better biomolocules, their parts/monomers, then we learned about polarity and hydrogen bonds in water.

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We learned about how carbs, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids interact withing living organisms

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we learned about hydrogen bonds and how different biomolecules work and are broke down by enzymes.

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We went over biomolecules and water properties

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I remember learning about biomolecules and their function in the body, and the chemistry of water

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-Bio molecules, Proteins(Enzymes are made of Protein), Lipids, Nucleic acid, and Carbohydrates.
-human digestive system.
-properties of water; h2o.
-Hydrogen bonds
Soap makes pepper sink because it is demonstrating how disinfectants take breaks apart bonds.
Proteins help repair damaged tissue, they build muscle, lastly they help maintain steady ph balance.

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Water uses hydrogen bonds to adhere to each other, Enzimes and how they work and what conditions they work in

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We learned about different biomolecules, then we learned about water properties.