Cell Wars: Posters & Video - 9/5 - 9/9

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Summary:

     The Mitochondrion is the power house of the cell. It provides energy to all the organelles around it. Without the Mitochondrion, many animals and plants would not exist since they require a lot of energy, and most living creatures would be bacteria. The inner membrane of mitochondria is folded and creates cristae. Cristae increases the surface area of the inner membrane, and allows the matrix, the part that is inside the inner membrane, to work at its most. The outer membrane of the mitochondria acts like skin, protecting the mitochondria.

  

SP7 - Arguing From Evidence: 

     This week, I argued from evidence and attempted to convince the class that mitochondria is the best organelle in the cell. In the video that my team and I were making this week, we said that mitochondria is the power house of the cell and nothing big would survive without them. We also explained the structure of the mitochondrion, and said that the mitochondria has two things: the inner membrane and the outer membrane. The outer membrane acts like the skin and the inner membrane is folded to increase surface area and maximize productivity. We also explained the function of the cell. The mitochondria collects sugar and organic molecules, chemically digests them into energy, and it is given to all organelles.

XCC - System and System Models: 

      This XCC is similar and kind of adds on to what I put in my XCC concepts in my blog two weeks ago. I noticed a similarity to an electronic device and a cell. A cell has its parts and its functions, such as the mitochondria, vacuole, lysosome, nucleus, etc. All these parts work together to achieve one or more things. An electronic device does the same thing. Take a computer for example. A computer has a hard-drive, a battery, screen, a sound card, a motherboard, etc. All these components of a computer work together to accomplish the things a computer does. The parts on a computer are also comparable to those on a cell. The battery is similar to the mitochondria, providing energy for the computer, the CPU is similar to the nucleus, acting like the brain of the cell, etc. In conclusion, cells act similar to electronic devices.