I will have to ask that nobody do anything stupid, like try to submit one of these papers as their own in their own classes. Not only is that cheating, which is wrong, but you probably don't want to use these papers anyway. They're... they're pretty dumb.
Before each paper, I will give a brief description of the assignment and after each one I will give what teacher feedback I can remember from them (some of them were graded and returned and I still have that copy, some of them I only have saved on my computer still, etc). So, I guess I'll start out with a short one included in this post:
CHROMADOOM:
In 10th grade Biology class, our teacher charged us with making a short story that included various vocabulary words pertaining to chromosomes (which you will see underlined). We had to use these vocabulary words as appropriately as possible, while weaving them into the creative story. I decided to base my story on the story of the popular video game, DOOM:
In the year 2046, in the organism Mars, research projects funded by the Earth Organism Military were leading huge strides in chromosome existence. Chromosomes are the dominant life force in cells in the year 2046, taking over the entire nucleus in a freak mutation. But that's a different story - the important thing is that chromosomes are made up of bundled, coiled up DNA containing genes.
The research in Mars was going smoothly in many regards. Much of the effort went towards improvements in mitosis - the process of nucleus division in cells. Mitosis is the middle step during a cell's reproduction phase, commonly called the cell cycle. There was the chromatid division project, which made the process of splitting two chromatid, or the cloned chromosomes paired for the purpose of reproduction, more simple and safe. A nucleus is the home for chromosomes, where they get all of their work done, during the G1 phase - the phase of growth and activity for a cell. Then, in the S phase, the DNA in a nucleus replicates, and just before the Chromosomes, currently called chromatin, are cloned, interphase, the period of cell growth just before reproduction, comes to an end. During the mitosis, the 'clone-osomes' are stuck together at the centromere. The development of superior spindle fibers and centrioles led to a more efficient split of the chromatid into two independent chromosomes.
There were, however, many tries at the development of cytokinesis, the division of a cell's cytoplasm and organelles. Think of the cell as an entire town for chromosomes. Cytokinesis is like a town splitting into two towns. There is first a division of leadership, so the new town can have a real leader - which is mitosis for chromosomes. After the leaders are picked out, the town is divided up, with fair assets for each town. The Mars scientist chromosomes were unable to make the process quicker or more efficient. There was simply nothing to improve about cytokinesis.
The only problem was when the Mars researchers developed the Inter-Cellular Teleportation System. Unwittingly, they opened up a portal to Tumor, the cell version of Hell. Just like the popular video game franchise, Doom, the researchers opening a portal to Tumor was a bad thing. Mutated chromosomes soon became rampant around Mars. Mutation is the change to a base pair in a DNA sequence. The cells that were mutated actually came straight out of Tumor. If not for the work of one Marine chromosome ridding the Mars Research station of the mutated chromosomes, it is likely that Mars Tumor would have become inoperable, and required radiation to be eradicated.
So, the story of the chromosome researchers in Mars comes to an end. The story of Mars can be used to remind chromosomes that technology is good, but try to do too much, and all Tumor breaks loose.
This story is based on that of the popular video game Doom. Any inconsistencies would thereby be resultant from plot holes in Doom's storyline. I wrote this report in less than an hour, and did not change any words after they were written. I did not copy or paste a single word of this story.
My teacher liked this paper so much, she kept it as an example for future classes (I know this for a fact, because in recent years she went to my cousin's school, where she taught my cousin and showed her my paper as an example). There is another story of the exact same breed about Cells that I'll put up here eventually.
