RESPIRATION

Respiration is another way of saying breathing.Cellular respiration is a method that used to convert food into energy.In order to do this the cells need oxygen. Some cells use anaerobic respiration which basically means it doesn't need oxygen. An example would be when someone exercises they build up lactic acid in muscles. Respiration affects the body everyday whether we notice it or not.

Green Human Photosynthesis

Green Human project. This is an article about if humans were able to perform photosynthesis.

Enzyme Lab

An enzyme is something that speeds up a chemical reaction. When we did the activity in class, we first had the enzymes reacting normally. When the inhibitors (things that are added to slow reaction down) were added, the process did slow down because they looked exactly like the enzymes. Then the enzymes don't work the way they are suppose to. They are controlled by temperature as well as the PH level. When the enzymes didn't know which one to choose, the rate of capturing slowed down. The activity is how we showed the relation.

Metabolism

A way for our bodies to get energy is the main concept of metabolism. It changes the food into nutrients that your body can use for energy. That is what keeps our cells working properly. Kids Health says "it is a process that begins even before were born and doesn't end until you die." But it doesn't just work in humans. It works in all living organisms. The chemicals break down the sugar and turn it into energy. Some people's metabolism is fast and others is slow. This just means that the body breaks down and uses the energy faster than others. If someone gets hungry faster than others than that means there body had already broken down their food. Energy that is not used is stored as fat and that slows down your metabolism. Energy it makes the world go round.

How PH, Temperature, and number of drops

1. Graph 1 are Ph effects. The amount of pressure changes according to the level of acid in the beaker. The higher level of acid there was the more pressure there was. The level ten ph has the lowers pressure increase.
2. Graph 2 is the number of drops of yeast that were added to the peroxide. The graph shows that the more drops that were added, the more pressure was present.
3. Graph 3 is how temperature effects the pressure. With warm water, the beaker plug popped because the pressure was too great to hold it. The cold popped as well but it took a little longer that than the warm. The room temperature was a steady increase and the hot did not show much change in the pressure at all.

Even though we only look at these three effects separately, it is possible to make a combination of them to see which combination provides the best results to make it pop faster. It makes me wonder how fast it would pop if the peroxide was warm, had thirty drops, and contained a low ph acid.

Carbon Monoxide The Silent Killer

http://www.ncpoisoncenter.org/body.cfm?id=114

Carbon Monoxide is a gas that is created when you burn things that have carbon in them. You can't smell it and its colorless. When someone breaths it in they tend to come down with something that is similar to the  flu. The stuff that you breath in, oxygen, is stopped from reaching your brain and your heart. With transportation of oxygen in your body shutting down, you body can go into a coma and someone that has Carbon Monoxide poisoning could possibly die if exposed to it long enough.

So how to you get Carbon Monoxide poisoning? Not like you would ever want it. But doing things like using a gas oven to heat your home, burning charcoal, breathing in a space that doesn't have proper ventilation, or ignoring the symptoms of felling like your going to throw up, headaches or feeling dizzy.

If someone ever acquires carbon monoxide poisoning then the best treatment would be oxygen therapy but even then if you breath too much in, the damage done could be un-reverseable. 

New Species Found in Yosemite National Park

This arachnid has been classified as a pseudoscorpion. So its has parts are half scorpion and spider. But instead of its venom being located in a scorpion stinger which it doesn't have, it is located in its claws.  The arachnid is blind, located in caves of granite and limestone filled caves, and extremely small. It could fit on the tip of your finger. They only use their venom for killing their prey.

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/pets-animals/stories/animal-with-venom-filled-claws-discovered-in-yosemite

Cell Structure Comic