Biology 1610
Reflection:
This Biology 1610 class has taught me so much. It wasn't an easy class, I had to face lots of challenges and study really hard to understand the many concepts, but my knowledge has grown exceedingly.
From this class I learned about:
This class was beneficial to me because learning about the cells (the basic units of life) helps me understand the world around me better because everything is made of cells. I understand how the cells in my body can receive cell signals from the environment so I can respond to them. I understand how cellular respiration generates a lot of energy to then be used in metabolic processes. I learned about genetics and how we are each different through processes of genetic variation such as crossing over in meiosis, independent assortment of chromosomes, and random fertilization. I learned that genetic variation produced in sexual life cycles contributes to evolution. Those are just a few points of things I learned during the semester. Biology 1610 broadened my knowledge and helped me become a better student through the hard work and effort I put into group-work, online homework, learnsmart, lectures, powerpoints, and studying. The studying techniques I learned to get through this class will help me in the future when I have classes that are hard for me. Biology 1610 wasn't easy but now that I see how far I've come, I know it was worth it to not give up because I've learned so much.
From this class I learned about:
- Chemistry of life
- Cellular structure and function
- The process of Cellular Respiration
- The process of Photosynthesis
- Cell communication
- Heredity and Genetics
- Cell Cycle
- Mitosis and Meiosis
- The Central Dogma
- Evolution
This class was beneficial to me because learning about the cells (the basic units of life) helps me understand the world around me better because everything is made of cells. I understand how the cells in my body can receive cell signals from the environment so I can respond to them. I understand how cellular respiration generates a lot of energy to then be used in metabolic processes. I learned about genetics and how we are each different through processes of genetic variation such as crossing over in meiosis, independent assortment of chromosomes, and random fertilization. I learned that genetic variation produced in sexual life cycles contributes to evolution. Those are just a few points of things I learned during the semester. Biology 1610 broadened my knowledge and helped me become a better student through the hard work and effort I put into group-work, online homework, learnsmart, lectures, powerpoints, and studying. The studying techniques I learned to get through this class will help me in the future when I have classes that are hard for me. Biology 1610 wasn't easy but now that I see how far I've come, I know it was worth it to not give up because I've learned so much.
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These files show the Takehome #1 Individual worksheet pages that I did. On the first worksheet I explained: the difference between ionic and covalent bonds, why water is polar, why hydrogen bonds are important, why polar substances dissolve in water but fats don't, and identified emergent properties of water. The second page I labeled a diagram of a eukaryotic cell with it's cellular structures and then described the function of a few structures. On the third page I explained: the difference between the rough and smooth ER's, what certain structures in the cell do, the pathway of the endomembrane system, how extracellular membrane proteins get outside the cell, the 3 main types of cytoskeletal proteins, and the function of cell-cell junctions.