Yousef Hariri
Professor Fowler
Bio 10
September 24, 2017
Writing Assignment 1
1) A simple way to check whether the cells are bacterial, plant, or animal would be to examine the characteristics of a single cell. A big difference that bacterial cells have that is not found in plant or animal cells is a Nucleoid, which is a certain area whether the genome of the bacteria lies. To differentiate a plant cell from the other two types, one can look for either a cell wall and/or chloroplast, which is what plant cells use for photosynthesis. Animal cells do have Centrioles which help in the process of cell division in animal cells.
2) Viruses are nonliving parasites that find a host cell and use it for its own reproduction. Viruses are “nonliving”
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Cellular respiration occurs from gathering glucose in food and using the oxygen in the air to provide energy in the form of ATP. Glucose is first broken down inside the cytoplasm of the cell through the process of glycolysis. In the second stage, pyruvate (products of glycolysis) molecules are taken into the mitochondria and changed into 2-carbon molecules. After the new molecules are created, they go through a process called Krebs cycle, in which the molecules form compounds that will be used during the next step of respiration as well as a small amount of ATP. The next and final stage is the creation of ATP using the energy in an election transport chain. During this process, molecules grab energy from electrons while moving around. This process occurs in the inner membrane of the mitochondria. Photosynthesis takes place within the chloroplasts of a plant cell. The chlorophyll within the chloroplast absorbs the light while carbon dioxide is grabbed from the air through an area of the leaves of a plant called the stroma. Water is also obtained through the roots of a plant which absorb water through root hairs. Next, the light energy goes through many electron transfer reactions inside of the thylakoid membrane, which is found within the chloroplast. Another reaction, (dark reaction), takes place is the stroma of the chloroplast. The Calvin cycle takes place where the …show more content…
Meiosis and mitosis also go through very similar sequences although meiosis has 2 phases by which it does this process. Both processes also breakdown the nuclear membrane, separate the genetic material into a pair, and go through cell division and reconstruction in each cell. In meiosis however, two cell division take place whereas mitosis only goes through one. Meiosis also ends up with four daughter cells that are not genetically identical while mitosis ends up with two daughter cells that are identical to one another as well as the parent cell. Another difference is that the crossing over of chromosomes occurs in meiosis (during prophase I) but not in mitosis, which is a very major difference. Lastly, the daughter cells to come from meiosis are haploid while the daughter cells to come from mitosis are diploid. Meiosis occurs in the sexual reproductive cycle because it allows fertilization to take place, with a sperm and egg both going through this process. All cells besides reproductive or germ cells go through mitosis and allows for the duplication of cells whenever or wherever more cells are
The first difference is the purpose of this cycle. Meiosis’s purpose is to produce gametes for reproduction. The second difference is the process. Meiosis is just like mitosis but it has two cycles of replication. Meiosis goes through the same process I just went through, but instead of being done after cytokinesis the cell goes to another cycle of replication.
Doriana Spurrell What different frequencies and types of light would prompt the Spinach leaves to go through the process of photosynthesis effectively? Purpose: The purpose of this experiment was to see which of the four lights that range across the light spectrum would properly and most efficiently help the spinach leaf perform photosynthesis. Background Information: Photosynthesis is the process in which plants use light energy to transform into chemical energy.
1. A viruses is a non-living infection agent and can be found anywhere. it has no cell organelles. They are eliminated by the immune system. Viruses are the smallest in size of all the microbes.
Viruses are an intriguing organisms that have both living and nonliving characteristics. During the 1800’s scientists thought viruses were toxins because they could not grow it in an agar plate and also viruses passed through a Chamberlain filter which was known to filter out bacteria. Not until 1898 when a famous researcher named Martinus Beijerinck performed an experiment by trying to grow the so called “Toxin” in an agar plate with a living tissue extracted from a plant (2). Viruses have specificity, in that the affect a specific type of cell (1). For instance, a virus strain named Coliphage T4 only affects E. coli because it can interact with E. coli receptors.
One side of the argument is that viruses are classified as being non living because they can not reproduce on its own. They can only reproduce with an aid of a host cell, which then it can turn into a virus. Also, viruses do not have any structure to their cells as well as they do not grow since it is created already fully formed. Lastly, they do not have a metabolism which is a characteristic of life. However, not everyone believes that viruses are nonliving.
I believe that viruses are nonliving things, for they do not obtain all 8 characteristics of life. Viruses are microscopic parasites that can only replicate inside of a living host cell. Scientists created a set of requirements that need to be obtained to be considered alive. Those requirements are the 8 characteristics of life needed which are: made of cells, growth and development, reproduction, obtaining and using energy, homeostasis, possessing genetic material, responding to the environment, and the ability to evolve.
photosynthesis and cellular respiration are extremely important in the cycle of energy to sustain life simply because nutrients would not metabolize in a productive manner. Both have numerous stages in which the process of energy occurs, and relationships with organelles located in the eukaryotic cell. Photosynthesis is a process by which green plant and other organism manufacture their food using sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water while cellular respiration is the oxidation of organic compounds that occurs within cells, producing energy for cellular processes. Photosynthesis occurs within organelles called chloroplasts. These organelles can absorb light, and are located inside of leaves.
Subject: Science Grade: 8 Title: Are Viruses Alive? Date of Assessment: September 2014 – Due Date will vary on class timing.
Viruses Alive or Non-Living Are viruses considered alive? Some people say yes some people say no, this is a debatable question. First off a virus is a strand of DNA or RNA. A virus attacks and bursts cells. When they do that they make you sick in some cases can kill you.
Because of their simplicity, they could potentially have been the starting material of cells. Upon replication of their genome, it is possible that mutations could occur, coding for proteins that could later serve various cellular functions, or that upon budding for eukaryotic viruses, a ribosome or other organelle could have gone with the virus and become integrated into its system. If an organism is missing only one of the characteristics of life, it cannot be considered alive. Upon reviewing several of these characteristics, it becomes apparent that viruses are truly not living creatures. For them to be thought of as alive, the definition of what it means to be alive would have to change.
Viruses do not obtain materials or energy that make waste and therefore do not meet this requirement of life
Viruses are not considered to be living organisms for the following reasons: they are not composed of cells, they can’t metabolize to make their own energy, and they cannot replicate independently. One of the factors that make living organisms such as humans, animals, and bacteria alive is the fact that they are composed of at least one cell. Whereas viruses only contain a protein coat called the capsid and posses zero organelles. Also, viruses cannot metabolize or make energy on their so as a result, they can only receive energy from another cell, their host. Lastly, viruses cannot replicate and reproduce alone.
These similarities and differences have a great impact on how the cell reproduces. There are many similarities between them, and here are a few key similarities. First of all, both mitosis and meiosis are forms of reproduction, and in the end both will end up making new cells. Also, they both occur in the human body, which is really interesting because a person has all that going on in trillions of cells all at one time. Another thing that they have in common is that in both processes, cytokinesis occurs.
The natural host for the virus is bacterial cell. Phages differ in terms of the basic
Some people think that viruses are alive because they have some characteristics that living organisms have but in reality they have those characteristics because living things provide them with them. That is how they are able to reproduce by the help of its host. Scientists all over the world agree that viruses are nonliving because “they lack many of the properties that scientists associate with living organisms”according to scienceline.ucsb.edu