What Is Life?

BIO/101 Version 3

Victor Munoz
What Is Life?
Read each statement. Write a 100-word summary explaining how that media piece supports that statement and include reference citations. 1. Find a media piece article! "ideo! presentation! song! or other related to the scientific method! creating hypotheses! or designing experiments. Include the lin# or reference citation for the piece and descri$e how it helped you $etter understand how the scientific method is used to create hypotheses and experiments. http%&&teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu%'0'0&phy(la$s&)ppendix*&)ppendix*.html. +he article I used is the ,Introduction to the -cientific .ethod./ +his article helped me to understand how the scientific method is used $y outlining the steps of the method itself. +he article also defines what a hypothesis is and how it should $e formed in relation to the gi"en o$ser"ation. +he article also in"o#es critical thin#ing when descri$ing how an experiment to a hypothesis should $e. +he article explains how the scientific method re0uires that through experimentation! an hypothesis must $e ruled out or modified if its predictions are incompati$le with the experimental tests. +he results and hypothesis must agree to pro"e true. 1. Find a media piece article! "ideo! presentation! song! or other that recogni2es the fundamental concepts of chemistry in $iology. Include the lin# or reference citation for the piece and descri$e how it helped you $etter understand how fundamental concepts of chemistry affect $iology. +his article states a$out the role of chemistry in $iology. It is clear that chemistry is indirectly lin#ed to $iology. -e"eral of the cellular processes! which ta#e place under $iological processes! are studied with the help of chemistry. -u$3ects li#e molecular $iology4 $iochemistry also has underlying principles of chemistry. .olecular le"el interactions and other molecules in"ol"ed in $iological studies especially for treatment of cancer! use of radioisotopes for treatment procedures are also $ased on chemistry. -uch "arious other $iological processes has direct role of chemistry. http%&&www.infoplease.com&cig&$iology&chemistry-$iology.html

5. Find a media piece article! "ideo! presentation! song! or other that descri$es the energy meta$olism of cells. Include the lin# or reference citation for the piece and descri$e how it helped you $etter understand the energy meta$olism of cells. +he "ideo used for this discussion comes from http%&&www.youtu$e.com&watch? "67(8F9xR9e:;. +his "ideo discusses the energy meta$olism in s#eletal muscle cells. It explains how sugars and lipids are created $y digesting food. +his "ideo uses computational modeling to pro"ide a "isual of how meta$olism relies on "arious organs in the $ody. +he "ideo also shows how pathways interact at the cellular le"el to use or store meta$olic su$strates. +he "ideo ena$led me to see how the meta$olic networ# functions from $eginning to end and how the disruption of the networ# can result in meta$olic diseases such as +ype 1 <ia$etes. +his meta$olic networ# is controlled $y signal transduction pathways! such as insulin signaling.

What Is Life? BIO/101 Version 3 =. Find a media piece article! "ideo! presentation! song! or other that compares structures and functions of different cell types. Include the lin# or reference citation for the piece and descri$e how it helped you $etter compare structures and functions of different cell types. http%&&www.cptips.com&$scphys.htm +his article explains well a$out the energy meta$olism of cells. +he two types of meta$olism i.e. aero$ic and anaero$ic4 it also explains the different steps in the aero$ic meta$olism! which includes production of )+> $y steps including glycolysis! 7re$s cycle! and electron transport chain! which occurs in mitochondria. )naero$ic meta$olism occurs in the a$sence of oxygen and the process is called fermentation. +his article also shows the total energy production in these processes respecti"ely.

?. <iscuss what life means to you after completing 0uestions 1@=. Life can ha"e se"eral meanings. +o me! life is a ,state of $eing/ where cells wor# together to perform speciali2ed functions. +hese cells! while appearing minimal! actually ma#e up the genetic coding of e"ery li"ing organism. +his genetic coding! or <A)! distinguishes one organism from another. In life cells perform a "ariety of functions and these functions must follow the proper se0uence in order for the organismBs processes to function properly.