Friday, March 25, 2011

Pet Cloning

Well my response to this topic was pretty easy. I had thought about this issue before and reached my conclusion. I really don't think this is that great of idea. Cloning pets would give people an idea that death is not finite. Once something has died it is dead. The same pesonality that was in your beloved pet will not necessarily be there when you clone it, it will just appear almost identical. Don't get me wrong, it would cool to be able to have my dog live forever and I will certainly miss her when she dies, but it just isn't a thing I'm going to do. It is part of a grieving process when anyone or anything dies. You have to accept they are gone and remember all the good times you had with it when it was here. And the benefit of a pet is you can always get a new one, that may not take that special pet's place, but you can get some new memories with this one.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Cellular Respriation

I don’t think that humans could survive with just anaerobic cellular respiration. That is because anaerobic cellular respiration doesn't need oxygen. But aerobic respiration needs oxygen our breathing provides which in turn provides us with the ATP energy we need. But we can use anaerobic cellular respiration too.It just needs to work in junction with aerobic respiration. Warm blooded animals have to work harder to maintain the cell processes. Cold blooded animals do not need to be quite so active.