Prokaryotic Cell

Prakaryotic cells attract me when it comes to the learning of cells. The figure that is shown on page 65 is amazing. There are so many things that are apart of this cell and without each one this cell will not survive. There is the ribisome which is where I can fin the protein synthesis taking place, then the inclusion body that is shaped like a little ball and this little things stores nutrients that are being taken in for later so that this cell can always have energy. Mesonomes in the shape of this pouch or puzzle looking piece when looked at from above stays on the inside of this cell which is the plasma membrane that will connect with cytoplasm and increase the surface area all around the cell wall. If I have looked correctly there are four things that stay inside the cell and operate the interior, which are the three above and this final one called the nucleoid. The nucleoid is in fact where the bacterial chromosome can be found which is almost like a bunch of strings all coiled up. I find the outside of the cell to be the most interesting just because of the things that it is capable of doing. The fimbriae is like hair all around the cell, this hair is what will grab on to things and stick to them and then there is the giant looking hair, which is the appendage sticking out which will allow this cell to transfer DNA to different bacterial cells. The most interesting thing to watch on this cell is the flagellum, the flagellum is this tiny sting like thing comeing out of the back of the cell and it spins just as a boat prop does. This is how the cell moves around, this makes it seem like some of the things that a cell does is why we have certaint things like the boat prop. So this is the structure of the prokaryotic cell and how it is made up. Without every aspect listed that I learned, the cell would not survive.

chapter 1

Okay so yesterday I began to study for the biology test that is next Tuesday, which is haunting me by the way and I discovered that I can not just study anymore. I now have had to change all of my studying techniques up and hope that they work so that I can pass. I have never had to leave school and go study immediately after school and study for one subject for atleast four to five hours a day. The catchy thing is, I see me having to actually learn material instead of just memorizing it for the next day helping me. The perfect example is the way that I broke chapter one down so that I would be able to learn the material better. I started at the beginning of the outline that was given to us and created a map kind of like the one on page 3 in the book. How about I just break the map down so that if some one reads this then they will understand and hopefully they can do the same. Here we go: atoms (create)> elements (inside elements) > cells (combine and create) > tissues (combine and create) organs (work together) > organ system. Now keep in mind that this is basically then one in the book on page 3 but I did not realize that they were the same until after I made it. So after my discovery in creativity I decided to keep going because while I was making this map I found myself reading it out loud to the point to where I had learned it and it was embedded in the file cabinet in my brain. Lets give one more example: one species (creates) > population (interacts) > community (creates) > ecosystem (entire picture) > biospehere. This is something that is continued through all the chapters for me . I hope that this creativity will work because it is not easy but it takes dtermination.

Metabolism

Today was an interesting day, many may have known this which would mean that I am not very intelligent in common biology knowledge but I never knew that there was a catabolism and a anabolism. All of my life I understood it as just being metabolism. I learned that catabolism was the process in which things were broken into smaller pieces and that anabolism actually joined things together. I can say that I probably should have known this a long time ago but this was not taught to me in my 10th grade biology. Now that I know that there are 3 different things that break things such as food down in my body it causes a question to come to mind. Is metabolism the name that is used to cover all of the categories, like if I say metabolism am I talking about catabolism and anabolism together as one?

hydrogen being apart of oxygen.

This may be an off the wall question but that is what blogging is for , for me to allow my thoughts to be answered, could be possible at all for one day hydrogen to pull away from oxygen, or even oxygen to part from hydrogen, if so what would happen, would we be able to breathe?

Salt and ice?

How is salt able to melt ice?

Nitrogen in our DNA?

Ok in class we discussed some of the 6 elements that we need to survive. It was mentioned that there was nitrogen in our DNA, this may be an off the wall question, if there is nitrogen in our DNA wouldn't that make us kind of explosive?

Hey Dr. Platt!

My name is Jonathan Gibbs. I am happy to be in your Bio 123 class.