What Is Life

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What Is Life?

Read each statement. Write a 100-word summary explaining how that media piece supports that statement and include reference citations.

1. Find a media piece—article, video, presentation, song, or other—related to the scientific method, creating hypotheses, or designing experiments. Include the link or reference citation for the piece and describe how it helped you better understand how the scientific method is used to create hypotheses and experiments.

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* http://sciencefairproject.virtualave.net/scientific_method.htm

This article described the process of creating a hypothesis and what are some of the factors to be considered when developing an experiment. One must begin with an educated guess as to what the answer to the research question might be and then formulate the experiment based on this guess.

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2. Find a media piece—article, video, presentation, song, or other—that recognizes the fundamental concepts of chemistry in biology. Include the link or reference citation for the piece and describe how it helped you better understand how fundamental concepts of chemistry affect biology.

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* http://staff.jccc.net/pdecell/chemistry/chemtext.html

In order to study living organism one must have an understanding of what living organisms are made up of. Chemistry is the study of elements and their interaction. All living organisms are made of elements that determine their function and behavior.

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3. Find a media piece—article, video, presentation, song, or other—that describes the energy metabolism of cells. Include the link or reference citation for the piece and describe how it helped you better understand the energy metabolism of cells.

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* http://www.suite101.com/content/cell-metabolism-is-a-defining-feature-of-life-a153275.

Cellular metabolism is the process by which cells obtain energy from glucose. This energy is used for body maintenance, growth and...