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Biological Sciences Reflection

The document discusses cell structure and function and how it is important in biology education. It explains that all living things are made of cells, which are the basic building blocks. It describes the main parts of plant and animal cells, including the cell membrane, cell wall, cytoplasm, vacuoles, organelles, and nucleus. It notes that plant cells can perform photosynthesis to produce their own food, while animal cells must obtain energy by consuming other organisms. The document concludes that studying cell structure and function helps us understand how organisms work at a cellular level.

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Biological Sciences Reflection

The document discusses cell structure and function and how it is important in biology education. It explains that all living things are made of cells, which are the basic building blocks. It describes the main parts of plant and animal cells, including the cell membrane, cell wall, cytoplasm, vacuoles, organelles, and nucleus. It notes that plant cells can perform photosynthesis to produce their own food, while animal cells must obtain energy by consuming other organisms. The document concludes that studying cell structure and function helps us understand how organisms work at a cellular level.

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Reflection Paper in Biological

Sciences in Science Education

Submitted by:
JAMES A. MAHAYAG
MaEdSE

Submitted to:

DEOGENES R. ADOPTANTE, Ed. D.


Professor

Biology is fundamental in the most literal sense of the world. It’s all about
how things live, breed, breath and die, it’s about the gears that keep us and
everything else loudly chugging along. One of the very important things we
should learn from biology is how cell structures and its functions help living
things survive.

All living things are made of the same basic building blocks, cells. A human
is made of 65 trillion cells. Cells are everywhere, on you skin, in your blood, and
even on your tongue. In fact, your blood is clear but red blood cells are what
make your blood red. Most living things are made up of many cells but some are
made of only one cell, like amebas, paramecium, fungi, protists, monerans, and
bacteria.
There are two basic types of cells, animal cells and plant cells. They have
some common parts found in both and other parts that are unique to each. A
cell membrane is found in both plant and animal cells. It is the structure that
surrounds the cell and protects it. Plant cells have a cell wall, a rigid structure
surrounding the cell membrane. Animal cells do not have a cell wall. Cytoplasm
is the thick, jelly-like substance that makes up most of the cell. Vacuoles are
fluid filled sacs in the cell. The vacuoles contain stored water or food that will be
used by the cell. Cells also contain other "small organs" called organelles that
carryout various cell functions. And then there is the control center of the cell,
the nucleus, surrounded by a protective outer covering call the nuclear
membrane. The nucleus contains the DNA, or chromosomes, that carries all
the instructions on how a cell will function, live, and reproduce.
Every cell needs energy to live and reproduce. Plant and animal cells
obtain energy in different ways. Animals can not make their own food. They
obtain energy by taking in food, water, and oxygen and converting it to sugar.
Sugar is the only food a cell can eat. Plant cells can make their own food from
water and sunlight. This process is called photosynthesis. Both plant and
animal cells use energy from the food they obtain to reproduce.

Studying cell structure and its function is very important to living things
because studying cells helps us understand how organisms function, cellular
organelles work together to carry out life functions and cellular processes
enable organisms to meet their basic needs to support life.

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