11-12-2003, 10:52 PM | #21 |
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GREAT BIOLOGY STUDY SITE
Hey! Ok, I found it and I am posting before I forget.
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073031208/ The great thing about this biology site is that you don't have to have a code to use it (meaning you have to buy a new book usually). Enjoy!
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11-12-2003, 10:58 PM | #22 |
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Gee...I loved biology! When I said "photosynthesis Rules" I meant, it rules the earth. I always loved drawing pictures of all things botanical. Palmate, pinnate....oooh, stomata!
Nothing like a boring teacher to ruin it though. Or a bad textbook I suppose.
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11-12-2003, 11:12 PM | #23 | |
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A carbohydrate is an organic compound that consists of carbon and hydrogen and oxygen in a chain or ring. They are often called sugars and the most simple have as few as 3 carbon atoms. But they can also be extremely complex polymers with gigantic chains. This is why they are an efficient energy storage unit (and one of the reasons why low carb diets are all the rage…). A lipid is a hydrophobic (water hating) molecule composed of fats or oils. Its made up of long non-polar hydrocarbon groups arranged in chains. But forget all that. The easy definition is a lipid is a fatty substance in the blood. A protein is a large molecule composed of one or more chains of amino acids. the order is determined by the base sequence of nucleotides in the gene that codes for the protein. Proteins are multifunctional. They just do so many things its hard to even start. Phosphate is a salt of phosphoric acid. Phosphates play important roles in cells. Things like energy storage and genetic material transmission. I think it also has something to do with metabolism if I remember correctly.
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11-13-2003, 03:47 AM | #24 | |
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11-13-2003, 04:11 AM | #25 |
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best damn science i did was in year 10 when they let us do lots of different science and i got to do forensics... our teacher made it into a really interactive subject and she would set up the classroom into a crimescene and leave us to figure out the criminal... went into quite a bit of detail for year 10. anyway thats been and done so its just chem but its not that bad. i decided to pick up psych for next year which should be allright.
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11-13-2003, 01:45 PM | #27 | |
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a good one on physics for the non-scientist (even better than hawkins, i think): ABOUT TIME: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution by Paul Davies |
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11-13-2003, 04:35 PM | #28 |
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Yeah...I love science! Best subject by far at school.
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11-13-2003, 06:44 PM | #29 |
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Geology field
Hey Varda! Awesome...good luck with that...Geology is awesome. Do you have any idea what field you want to specialize in? Also, any people out there who know about geology or have experience in the field? Drop me a line
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11-15-2003, 07:28 PM | #30 |
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yeah i been looking around and want to do a degree in Earth science and possibly become something like a Volcanologist. I'm really into it lol but my mates think i'm mad
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11-16-2003, 08:59 AM | #33 |
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I've got to go there! Lava and tectonic plates make me HOT! (well, they make my brain hot ) Everybody in our house knows, if there is a show on about lava.....the TV is MINE! I was thinking of taking Prince's old song..."Oh Sheila" and changing the lyrics to "Oh Pangia", certainly a project worthy of some of my attention..
......315 to 285 million years ago: During the Mississippian movement of the earth's crust resulted in the collision of continents to produce the supercontinent, PANGIA. The resulting interruption in air and ocean currents resulted in a global ice ace.
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11-16-2003, 09:10 AM | #34 | |
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'Oh Pangia'? What's that? Do you mean 'Pangaea'? Well, if so, I'll write an 'Oh Gondwanaland' or sommat. |
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11-16-2003, 09:22 AM | #35 |
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"Oh Gondwanaland" doesn't have quite the beautiful lyrical flow, now does it? Geez, which name would Tolkien have used....Pangia (Pangaea) or Gondwanaland? Hmmmm, actually that might be a hard call!
http://webspinners.com/dlblanc/tectonic/pangea.shtml
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I think neither would be very Tolkien-ish. Tolkien would have probably used Laurasia instead, don't you agree?
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There's a cinema in a back street in Reykjavik called the Volcano Show, run by this filmmaker who does nothing but chase after volcanoes and make films of them. He was completely deranged, as you'd expect, but he put on a show just for us. That's where the "volcano going off under a glacier" bit came from. He'd some footage of that, taken from the air. What happens is that the glacier melts from the underneath until, eventually, the water finds a weak spot in the ice and all bursts out at the same time!!! Imagine a river as fast-flowing as..er .. Sarn Gebir (--), except a couple of kilometres wide, bursting out in a random location and totally wiping the slate clean. Last edited by The Gaffer : 11-17-2003 at 10:48 AM. |
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The only science I have much interest in is theology.
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