Biology 1010 Biology

Biology 1010 is a course that introduces students to the basic biological phenomena in all living organisms. It focuses on the different molecular levels of organization, heredity in evolution, genetics and reproduction. Through this course, I was able to master three essential concepts such as Mendel’s Law of Segregation, enzymes, and photosynthesis.
Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian monk that argued that parental traits are passed on to their offspring discrete “heritable factors”. Heritable factors are responsible for inherited traits such as purple flowers or round seeds in pea plants since Mendel experimented with garden peas. Mendel came up with a law known as Mendel’s Law of segregation. He tracked the inheritance of characters such as a flower’s color, which can occur as two alternative traits. When
Photosynthesis is a process where plants ,and also certain bacteria, transform light energy into chemical energy. In order to transform energy, plants use carbon dioxide and water. Furthermore, photosynthesis in plants occurs within the light absorbing organelles called chloroplasts. All green parts of any plant have chloroplast. For instance, grass, flowers, leaves etc. In order for photosynthesis to occur, there is a relationship between photosynthesis and what is known as cellular respiration. Cellular respiration is known as an aerobic harvesting, meaning that it contains or requires oxygen, of energy from food molecules. In photosynthesis, there are products, which is an ending material in a chemical reaction and reactants which are the starting material in a reaction. In photosynthesis, the starting materials are carbon dioxide and water. Throughout the process, the products turn out to be glucose (sugar) and oxygen gas. A simplified equation for photosynthesis is the following: 6CO_2(carbon dioxide) + 6 H2O(water)+ light energy(photosynthesis) = C_6 H_12 O_6(glucose) + 6O_2(oxygen