Biological Science
BIO 1010- Intro into Biology I took this class spring semester of 2013 at SLCC. By taking this class I fulfilled my biological science credit. Here I have posted (along with a reflection) my final project. Feel free to read it.
Reflection The study of life has been a journey into a bizarre world of the amazing interrelationships of cells and giant bio-molecules. Biology and the study of our origins on this rocky planet, Earth, have propelled our society into future. A future where we can cure diseases that once plagued our species, genetic disorders can be tracked down to the very chromosome that they originate from, and the discovery that all life on planet Earth comes from a common ancestor. To study further into biology, is to become more in tuned with our species place on the planet and answer the age old question of where did we come from.
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Astrobiology: Life among the Stars
The cosmos is a very big place. Looking up at the sky on a clear, dark night you can feel almost over-powered by the sheer magnitude of stars. From our remote vantage point you are only able to see a fraction of all the stars in the universe. Our infinitesimal planet, Earth, rotates around an average star in the backwaters of a spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way alone contains about four- hundred billion stars. Could it be that our humdrum Sun is the only one with a planet capable of harboring life?Perhaps. This question has puzzled and fascinated the human species since we first began to look up at the night sky, pondering whether we were really alone in the dark. The widely renowned astronomer, Carl Sagan said, “Life looks for life”; we seem captivated by the idea of life elsewhere in the universe. Astrobiology is the tool that we use to determine the possibility of life existing on those distant worlds. It is the science of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe: extraterrestrial as well as terrestrial. Click here to keep reading. |