Photosynthesis vs Cellular Respiration

Photosynthesis:
-Needs light.
-A chemical process that converts carbon dioxide into organic compounds(sugars).
-Sun is the source of energy for photosynthesis.
-Occurs in plants,algae, and some species of bacteria.
-Chlorophyll and pigments also help in the process of photosynthesis.
-Organisms create their own food.
-maintains normal levels of oxygen in the atmosphere.
-Occurs in open sky.
Cellular Respiration:
-Needs oxidation.
-The set of metabolic reactions and processes that take place in cells to convert biochemical energy from nutrients into ATP and then releases waste products.
-Involve catabolic reactions.
-Cells gain useful energy used to fuel cellular changes.
-Energy released is used to synthesize ATP to store this energy which can be used to drive certain processes across cell membranes.
-Occurs in bottom of sea where there is no light.

Cell Shape

What shape (radius, villi and dimples) and size allow a cell to have the highest rate of diffusion?
For a cell to reach maximum diffusion rate the villi % of cell surface area must be at 50. The radius has no effect and the cell shape must be at a ratio of 10:1. The number of dimples is 40. The picture displays a flat wide cells with spikes and dimples on it.

C3, C4m and CAM plants

1. C3 plants
These are plants in which CO2 comes directly from the air. In these plants, carbon fixation produces 3 carbon compounds. If it's dry there is no photosynthesis.
Examples: rice, wheat, soybeans
2. C4 plants
Carbon fixed in bundle sheath tissue surrounds the veins. These plants are fixed into four carbon compounds. They're not susceptible to O2. Even at low CO2 levels there is still such thing as fixed carbon. The 4 carbon compounds are in charge of taking CO2 into the Calvin cycle.
Examples: Corn and sugarcane
3. CAM plants
The stomata of these plants only opens at night. They fix caron into 4 carbon compounds(vacuoles) The calvin cycle in these plants happens throughout the day.
Examples: cacti, deserted adapted plants.

biochemistry wordle

I sorted out my wordle by chapters, they're main ideas, and they're main key words. For the first chapter I chose words mainly dealing with chemistry and the role in life. Atoms, matter, bonds and their properties they all were related therefor i included them. The next chapter I did the properties of water: adhesion,cohesion,hydrophilic, hydrophobic, etc. I chose those because they all had to do with water and all were some sort of property in water. Then I did organic chemistry which deals with carbon and the different molecules in life. Isomers were a big topic in this chapter therefor I chose all it's different properties. Last but not least I chose words dealing with macromolecules: carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, proteins, and nucleic acids. The words I chose all took different roles in the different macromolecules.

Blog 4: Macromolecules

5 things I learned about macromolecules are:
-There is 5; Carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, proteins, and nucleic acids.
-Carbohydrates contain monosaccharides(glucose & fructose), disaccharides(sucrose), and polysaccharides(cellulose,starch,glycogen,keratan sulphate,and agarose).
-Lipids include: Fatty acids(saturated/unsaturated), triacylglycerols(result from glycerol molecule), phospholipids(2 fatty acids and 1 phosphate), steroids, and a lipid bilayer.
-Vitamins: example, vitamin A is a lipid, a terpene.
-Proteins include: Primary structure(amino acids and peptides), secondary structure(alpha helix and beta strand),tertiary structure(lysozyme), and quaternary structure(hemoglobin)
-Nucleic acids consist of:
Nitrogenous bases(ex: adenine)
Nucleosides(ex: adenine forms witg ribose the nucleoside adenosine)
Nucleotides
DNA(forms double helix from two strands of hydrogen bonds between nitrogenous bases)
RNA

Blog2: Ecology Vocabulary

Reasons to why I chose these words are:
Most of thee words appeared on the essay questions we had therfor I figured they were key words. Moreover I also noticed that these words were frequently used in the daily study of these chapters. The point of ecology was to focus on species; their diversity, their population size, and their ways of survival. Part of these three points is where thet live and who they interact with and also the ABIOTIC and BIOTIC features within the environment. Also, the use of succession, primary succession and how animals adapt to completely destroyed habitats with useful soil and etc. Then comes secondary succession and the diversity+biomass=niches which all make part of it. Immigration and emrigation also have a huge effect affecting species by having other interrupt or interact with the native species. Overall all these words have a relationship. One way or the other they all relate to each other and they all relate to ecology itself.

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