Monday, November 14, 2011

Industries that require anaerobic respiration

The industries that require anaerobic respiration are beer and  wine industries  because fermentation of yeast is used to make ethanol which makes beer wine and gin also anaerobic respiration is also used in the yogurt and cheese industry by fermentation of bacteria like Lactobacillius.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Why can’t we humans perform photosynthesis? Describe the major differences and similarities between C3, C4, and CAM plants,Are plants more important to people, or are people more important to plants? Explain.

1.We cant perform photosynthesis because plants can make their own food but we can't. Also we cant capture the light from the sun and create a biological compound.

2. C3: Is a metabolic pathway for carbon fixation( the reduction of carbon dioxide to organic compounds by living organism) in photosynthesis. Most plants are C3 plants.
C4:  Is used in carbon fixation which has 4 carbon molecules which is present in the first part of carbon fixation.  It also uses more energy than C3 pathway.C4 pathway also requires more atp.


Cam plants: Carbon Fixation pathway but through their stomata.The stomata also releases o2 at night

I think Plants are more important because the produce their own food and without plant we wouldn't have oxygen. Also we need producers before consumers. If there was no plants all the animals would die but a plant alone could survive.

Friday, August 26, 2011

The Effects of the Drought+ Plan to help conserve water

The Effects of the Drought on the ecosystem is pretty bad. If there is a drought, plants can't grow which means two things. One insects won't come so there won't be any pollination and two the food chain will start to collapse. The plant eaters will start to die which will cause the secondary animals to die. All the consumers will die and eventually there won't be a Ecosystem any more on that area. Now the agriculture industry will get effected by it because they need to sell plant,that's how they make there money and if they wont make money they wont survive and then that will effect the economy. It will effect the economy because the farmers wont sell any thing so the government can't tax that farmer for sales taxes or nothing like that so the economy gets hurt. Its like a domino's effect. Now the water conserving plan that me and my family came up with is very simple. First Don't let the water run. After you use the water close it immediately . Secondly use less of the water as you can find alternative ways to do something without using water.And the final step is to recycle the water. Those are the effects of the drought and a water conserving plan.

Links http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=ts_2c6NERo8
My brain

why water is essential to life

Water is essential to life because 70 % of your body is made up of water and the bodys cell is filled by water. Water moves nutrients and other various things in and out of your system. Water is also important because water heats slowly but retains the heat much longer. Im saying this because many organisms release waste through evaporation,for humans it is sweating,it carries heat away from the body which helps maintain consant body temprature which means it helps cell maintain Homeostasis. Now water molecules attract substances of the same kind which is called Cohesion which helps form thin films and drops which help the preventing the surface water so it wont break easily. Now water also helps with Adhesion which is attraction between diffrent substances which uses capillary action which helps move water through a narrow tube. The attaction of water to the walls make the water stronger to the gravitational pull then the water moves upward through the plant from diffrent roots through combination of Adhesion and Capillary Action. Water also has high specific heat. For example if we did not have hagh specific heat in the summer we would burn and in the winter we would freeze. Water also has H20 molecules from h bonds with each other + h attracted to -0 creats a sticky moleculel. Water is also essential to life because it has polarity with means the molecule has two parts positive and negative. Polarity example is if a ice broke and landed on a river the ice wont just go down on water and melt it will stay up with protects the natural habitat of that Ecosystem. Water also has acid and bases. Acids are Ionic Compounds and when dissolved in water break apart and form Hydrogen Ions they also have sour taste. Now bases are solutions that are also Ionic compounds but the form Hydrioxide Ions. Bases are usually slipperly and bitter tasting.

Links
Holt biology Johnson Raven book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF40cI2O16U