Translocation

This animation summarises the process of loading and unloading of sucrose in translocation:

http://www.pearsoned.ca/school/science11/biology11/sugartransport.
html

You can also go check out other cool animations here:

http://science.nhmccd.edu/BioL/animatio.htm

Evolution upon request

Somebody asked me about evolution right? Well, I've been hunting for something that is as close to the scientific truth about evolution as possible and this is what I've come up with so far. Many articles online or available out there are always at two ends of the spectrum and many are pretty extreme. Hopefully this helps educate. The second link will help you understand the stuff you read from the first link. We must note the significant difference between micro- and macro-evolution.

http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~do_while/sage/v1i4f.htm#footnote1

http://bioweb.wku.edu/courses/BIOL115/Wyatt//flash/Evolve2.swf

World's largest inflorescence

Another enormous flower found in Indonesia is the Amorphophallus titanum, or Titan arum. It is also known as the "corpse flower" for its unpleasant odor. Like the Rafflesia, the Titan emits the smell of rotting flesh to attract pollinators. Technically, the Titan arum is not a single flower. It is a cluster of many tiny flowers, called an inflorescence. The Titan arum has the largest unbranched inflorescence of all flowering plants. The plant can reach heights of 7 to 12 feet and weigh as much as 170 pounds!

Glucose splitting aka Glycolysis

There are other things mentioned on this site as well but my focus is on the glycolysis animation which some of us will be looking at in class. Check out the cool voice of the narrator. He's so laid back. ;)

http://youyiths.com/fakeweb/tf/molcell.html

Interesting heart facts!

What causes the sound your heart makes?
When someone listens to your heart with a stethoscope the sound is often described as - lub-dub lub-dub. The 1st heart sound (lub) is caused by the acceleration and deceleration of blood and vibration of the heart at the time of the closure of the Tricuspid and Mitral Valves. The 2nd heart sound (dub) is caused by the same acceleration and deceleration of blood and vibrations at the time of closure of the Pulmonic and Aortic Valves.

How many times does you heart beat?
The average heartbeat is 72 times per minute. In the course of one day it beats over 100,000 times. In one year the heart beats almost 38 million times, and by the time you are 70 years old, on average, it beats 2.5 billion times!

How much blood does your heart pump?
An average heart pumps 2.4 ounces (70 milliliters) per heartbeat. An average heartbeat is 72 beats per minute. Therefore an average heart pumps 1.3 gallons (5 Liters) per minute. In other words it pumps 1,900 gallons (7,200 Liters) per day, almost 700,000 gallons (2,628,000 Liters) per year, or 48 million gallons (184,086,000 liters) by the time someone is 70 years old. That's not bad for a 10 ounce pump!

ATP Synthesis

These sites contain some good illustrations to help us understand ATP synthesis aka production of energy. The second link contains an ATP synthase gradient movie (image above) which took some time for me to download but it was worth the wait.

http://microbiology.okstate.edu/faculty/demed2/movies/atpase.swf

http://vcell.ndsu.nodak.edu/animations/atpgradient/

ATTENTION PLEASE!

This is just to let all those who leave comments on this blog know that I will not allow anonymous comments to be posted. This is to avoid irresponsible comments being left for my moderating. So please put your name the next time you comment or you'll never have the pleasure of seeing your comment being posted. Thank you.

Fave sites

Those of you in my class would remember me using some of the animations from these sites. I thought I'd place the links here and make it available to you since I could not save the animation files. I trust it'll be of some help.

http://www.biologymad.com/master.html

http://www.kscience.co.uk/animations/anim_1.htm

http://esminfo.prenhall.com/science/lectureanimations/closerlook/
popup_content_lecture.htm

http://asm.wku.edu/pix/Pix.htm


This one's pretty cool:

http://bioweb.wku.edu/courses/BIOL115/Wyatt/flash/pop2.swf

The Worst Jobs in Science

This is both for those of you who think that your jobs are the worst in the world and also for those who think that just because you're in the science field, only the best jobs are waiting for you out there. Some of these are quite peculiar. ;) Word of caution though: I can't say I agree with how they phrase number 3 on the list.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/
806ffb24a5f27010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Tutti Fruity

The results are in. Here's the list of the world's most popular fruits:

No. 5 Watermelons

No. 4 Oranges

No. 3 Apples

No. 2 Bananas

No. 1 TOMATOES (didn't even think that they were considered fruits)

Favorite friends

Was wondering how I could start this blog with a bang. Well let's just say I give up. So no bangs, booms nor bongs but I do have here a link to my most favorite charaters, blobs. So here I am starting this blog with blobs.

http://www.blobs.org/