BIO/101
What Is Life?
Read each statement. Write a 100-word summary explaining how that media piece supports that statement and include reference citations.
1. Find a media piece—article, video, presentation, song, or other—related to the scientific method, creating hypotheses, or designing experiments. Include the link or reference citation for the piece and describe how it helped you better understand how the scientific method is used to create hypotheses and experiments.
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2. Find a media piece—article, video, presentation, song, or other—that recognizes the fundamental concepts of chemistry in biology. Include the link or reference citation for the piece and describe how it helped you better understand how fundamental concepts of chemistry affect biology.
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3. Find a media piece—article, video, presentation, song, or other—that describes the energy metabolism of cells. Include the link or reference citation for the piece and describe how it helped you better understand the energy metabolism of cells.
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4. Find a media piece—article, video, presentation, song, or other—that compares structures and functions of different cell types. Include the link or reference citation for the piece and describe how it helped you better compare structures and functions of different cell types.
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5. Discuss what life means to you after completing questions 1–4.
Every living thing is connected in some way or another. We are all made up of atoms that have been moving throughout the universe since the beginning of time. The atoms are absorbed, transformed, expelled, and recycled. For example, leaves fall off trees then decompose and give the soil nutrients needed for other plants to survive. It is a little more complicated than that, but that is the basic concept of life. When we perish, our bodies decompose and over time, our molecules are re-distributed throughout the universe to be recycled again. Every living