Unit 3 Reflection

Unit 3 was about cells. We focused on how cell's function, what they look like, and how they get their energy. It was easy for me to remember the parts of a cell required in making a protein and where they are located because of the analogy of each organelle being a part of a factory. It was more difficult to fully grasp and understand the processes involved for a cell to obtain energy. Cellular respiration is a process present in both plants and animals used to take food and turn it into energy, while photosynthesis is a process only in plants during which food is made from energy. Cellular respiration and photosynthesis are inverted. In this unit one of the in class activities was to draw and label the process of photosynthesis. This exercise made me realize what a high level of detail biology contains and the level of depth you can go into when studying the material. This made me a better student today than I was yesterday because I have learned that details are a crucial part but looking at the big picture is most important in understanding biology concepts. I am still left to wonder, however, what the proteins that cells make do in the body or plant. What role do they play that is so big that all the cells in the whole body have to help make them?