This website, and animation was interesting as they do a compare/ contrast regarding meiosis and mitosis. It helps to be able to better understand where the two are similar and where they differ.
The Citric Acid Cycle
I thought that viewing the exercises from the Citric Acid Cycle website was done very well. It had easy to understand charts, and asked good questions at the end of each section that allowed you to see if you were understanding the information being presented. I enjoyed learning more about the citric acid cycle through this. One thing it helped me to see more is the importance of being balanced in the food we eat. How the body utilizes the different parts of good food in order to obtain energy. In addition, when something goes wrong with the citric acid cycle in some way, how much it can affect different areas of the body, as well as how we utilize the foods consume.
Discussion Question:
"It is the network of interactions in its entirety that constitutes and specifies the characteristics of the particular cell, and not one of its components. "
This thought has me pondering on a quote I read by Bruce Lee, " To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
This idea can also be applied with how characteristics of cells or anything else in the body should be studied. We can look at the shape, color, smell, sound, location, etc and derive many theories regarding what it's character and purpose is, but until we see how it interacts with the whole system, we will never really know it's full potential.
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