Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties. These systems are an important staple in biology and are displayed in both Smarty Plants and The Fix which are the podcasts that I listened to and connected to this big idea. In smarty plants, the guys meet with a scientist who is …
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Big Idea 3: Information
Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes. These life processes are opened up and spread out in the podcasts titled CRISPR and Match Made in Marrow. CRISPR really dives into information as its all about genetic editing, and of course genetics are all just information and storage that passes …
Big Idea 2: Energy
Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain dynamic homeostasis. Two of the podcasts that I was listening two connected with this idea quite strongly, they were Primitive Streak and Funky Hand Jive. In the primitive streak podcast, we learn that scientists recently learned how to grow …
Big Idea 1: Evolution
The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life. Two of the podcasts I had been listening to connected to this big idea much more than the others. These two were; Cell Mates, and Henrietta’s Tumor. Cell Mates definitely puts evolution into perspective where we start to realize that all living things started …
Big Idea’s
Recently I have been listening to podcasts and trying to understand life on a deeper level. While I was doing this I happened to make some connections between the podcasts and decided to see what the Big Ideas of biology are and sure enough they all fit into their own categories. Over my next few …
Biology At Your Fingertips 