Bio Blog

I thought that this response was deserving of being posted on the blog.  Evan provides very specific ways that biology connects to his life.  Although some of the scientific information needs to be edited a bit I think that he committed to the question.  Check it out!

How does biology connect to your life?

By Evan Mclean

Biology connects to my life due to many factors; for one my school is almost completely surrounded by a swamp in which, occasionally, I see its various organisms and plant species.  Another way biology connects to my everyday life is the bread I eat, in which before it’s made into a sandwich (or even into bread for that matter) scientists and agriculturists use the biological principles behind yeast to make the bread.  Another factor is the garden I pass by in order to get to my bus stop; this is listed as a factor because the gardeners who grew the garden used their knowledge of plants in order to grow the plants.

Biology connects to my daily life because this branch of science also studies all the processes of the human body.  And since I am human (I think?) it connects to my daily life as well.  For example running up and down “all those freaking stairs” to be on time for my classes has caused my respiration and heart rate to go faster so that my lungs could circulate more oxygen to my muscles so that I could breathe faster to make my heart produce more o2.  Another example would be eating, I eat a lot, and this is because food is a biological requirement of my body in order to carry out various processes like digestion and excretion.

Another way biology connects to my daily life is the fact that in winter I get sick a lot mainly that is due to infectious agents like bacteria and viruses, mainly the flu virus, this is because (as I remember it) a man sitting in back of me on the bus sneezed without covering his mouth and then a few minutes later I caught the flu.  I got the virus because the man sitting behind me previously had the virus and since the flu is very contagious, he directly spread his sickness to me from his sneeze; and who knows how many other people I may or may not have directly or indirectly got sick, SORRY!

Puberty is also another biological part of life in which the voice lowers in pitch, pubic hair appears, genitals and reproductive organs mature, the menstrual cycle begins for females and body/facial hair appears.  While I am on the subject I might as well talk about another biological process happening in my daily life, ageing which is (by Wikipedia definition) the accumulation of changes in a person over time.

And finally, last but not least, the one biological connection every single living thing has in common is CELLS!  Cells as my teacher taught me in 7^th grade are the basic unit of life, and all living organisms possess cells.  They are not only the most basic unit but they are the smallest unit of life that is classified as a living thing.  There are two types there is eukaryotic and the prokaryotic, the eukaryotic cells are basically animal and plant cells and the prokaryotic germs and fungi.

And these are the various ways biology connects to my daily life.