Biology

Scientific method not only links to bigger contexts and objectives for this course, but also enhances our understanding the evolution in human populations. From race to cultural identities, scientific method greatly acknowledges the evolution of our biological adaptations and diversity. We put great emphasis on the scientific method because it never seeks for absolute, definite answers. Instead, it opens up new possibilities of stronger evidence to support the human evolution. With many…

Page 1 : http://mw2.concord.org/public/part2/intromacro/page1.cml 1. The individual DNA strands, which are macromolecules, are seen most clearly at 10 to the power of (a) -3 (b) +4 (c) -8 (d) -23 My answer is (c) (2:16:56 PM) 2. How many powers of ten are there between the DNA strands and you? Hint. (a) 3 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 12 My answer is (c) (2:17:22 PM) Page 2 : http://mw2.concord.org/public/part2/intromacro/page2.cml 1. Which of the following elements can be found in all four…

Today, there seems to be problems with dealing with pests. Unfortunately, people have unintentionally helped these pests evolve by applying artificial selection in the form of pesticides. The widespread use of pesticides has led to the evolution of pesticide resistance in insects(book). Through natural selection, they have inherited traits that make them more likely to survive and reproduce than those that do not have those traits. For example, each time chemicals are sprayed on a lawn to…

Most fossils are found within layers of sedimentary rocks called strata. Deeper strata are usually older and therefore fossils from different time period can be compared. Analysis of fossils from different strata suggests that more complex, modern organisms evolved from simpler, more ancient organisms.Imprint fossils are one example of fossils that died and been buried and the sediments get preserved. Biogeography is the study of species distributions. It examines how species have been…

Professor Fowler The Mode of Inheritance in Nicotiana Tabacu seeds and Albinism Introduction In plants, the chloroplast is an essential organelle for a plant cell’s primary metabolism. Productions such as CO2 fixation, manufacture of carbon skeletons and fatty acids, and synthesis of amino acids from inorganic nitrogen that is important for a plant to live and thrive. (Liu, Li, & Cheng, 2016) In addition, the chloroplast is responsible for producing the color pigment in plants because…

1. The distribution of organisms simply means the abundance of organisms on Earth. All organisms are live in different biomes because of their characteristics of survival. Furthermore, all organisms are unique and need certain living conditions. For example, polar bears and lizards will not be able to live in similar biomes because of their characteristics and behaviors on survival. Lizards depend on the sun for energy and heat while polar bears retain heat with their fur to stay warm because…

I stepped into the AP biology classroom for the second time that day. It was just after school had ended around 4 in the afternoon, and my classmates and I had filed back into the room to start the task of completing the first lab of the year. We had all participated in the regional science fair, so we were all reasonably acquainted with the scientific method, making this lab setting something of relative normality to us. Despite this prior exposure to a lab type setting, this was different.…

As you have heard, synthetic biology is an emerging technology that has made great advancements in a short amount of time. Though the public’s capacity to imagine misuse scenarios as a result of new developments in synthetic biology are vast, in reality institutional and structural capacities remain limited. Taking these limitations into account, synthetic biology still has an incredible amount of potential. This potential has implications for how America addresses its security concerns in the…

course of over sixty years great strides have been made in genetic science: the discovery of the double helix in 1953 and the cracking of the genetic code in 1966. Denise Caruso of the Hybrid Vigor Institute in a 2008 essay stated that synthetic biology ‘bioengineers’ use biobricks “an inventory of parts…” can be used to “assemble and programmed to compel organisms to operate in specific ways” or create “custom chemicals that can later be ‘harvested’ from cells and sold” (1). A very compelling…

What comes to mind when someone asks “What is biology”? Do you think of tiny cells spread throughout your entire body helping you stay alive, your DNA, or maybe plants? Biology is simply the study of living organisms. We learn by studying where living organisms come, from, where it has been, who or what were its ancestors, what it has used as food and even if there are any diseases or degenerations present. Biology helps us treat diseases, create vaccines, aid in better nutrition and has even…