Energy!

This post has the most monstrous image I’ve made to date.  I hope it will become more popular and useful than my current heavy hitters the cell and even Louis Pasteur’s experiment of spontaneous generation, which I’ve seen make the top ranks of both Google and Bing image search! In this image, I’ve covered energy [...]

Musical Learning – The Roundup

In your youth was Sesame Street.  If you were lucky when you got older there was Bill Nye.  Now it would seem you’re too old for education set to music.  But if that’s what you think, you’re wrong.  Check out these tunes: Thanks to ProfDodd for the tip – They Might Be Giants sings all [...]

Cellular Respiration

Cellular respiration is not exactly, but can be roughly viewed as, the reverse process as photosynthesis. Oxygen and glucose combine to breakdown and reassemble as carbon dioxide, water, and energy.

Photosynthesis

Plants are autotrophs, and today I’d like to focus on how plants get the energy they need. Plants need the following things to get energy to live: Water (H2O), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Sunlight. The process of converting H2O and CO2 in the presence of sunlight into energy is called photosynthesis.

Energy

Autotrophs make their own food and heterotrophs must consume food from an outside source. ATP is the energy source of cells.

Diffusion

After discussing the cell, it would only be fitting to talk about how the cell gets nutrients in and waste out.  The cell is surrounded by the cell membrane, which acts as the gate for everything that needs to pass into and out of the cell. Particles will move freely across the cell membrane until [...]