Synthesizing Respiration & Photosynthesis

[Sean Nash]

Take a good, solid read of this blog post. Read it again after thinking about it for at least five minutes. Then come back to this forum and scribble a bit creative commentary on how our study of photosynthesis and respiration allows you to really get at a deeper meaning of the post entitled: Grinding Grain by Dr. Doyle.

A description in less than 100 words that is sufficiently creative that at least two classmates leave thoughtful, vote-like comments to... would be worth a measly few (yet potentially powerful) extra credit points to add to your pile.

What do you get from this? What does it make you think of? Does it allow you to see, or understand anything in a deeper way?

[ricky maddox]

The knowledge we gained through learning about cellar respiration and photosynthesis really helped to understand what he was saying. As he described what it felt like to turn the wheel, "First my right arm, then my left. I can feel my biceps swell. My legs work, too, shifting my weight back and forth with each pass of the milling wheel. My breathing picks up." I can now easily understand why he begins to breath more readily, and when he begins to describe photosynthesis, and the creation of the wheat I can really follow what he says instead of being more lost than anything else (paragraph 7). The best place I could see that the knowledge was very relevant was when he begins to show how photosynthesis works in one direction, and that cellular respiration sort of reverses the process ((paragraph 7)

[Sean Nash]

Hey Ricky- it seems as if others from half a world away have noticed your work here.
Check out this blog post. How fun is that?

[Samantha Wilson]

It makes me think of the past, when they had to do everything by hand, or with human strength. They used to have to do the same thing, but to get everything they needed. They didn't have electricity and machinery to do the work for them. They had to manually do things.

[Ryne Relford]

This article makes me think of the cycle of life and how one thing is used to help another thing function. It seems as if the man is comparing himself on the grinding machine to cellular respiration and photosynthesis." First my right arm then my left... My breathing picks up." By writing this the man makes the process of grinding grain sound like a power supplying process we would learn about in class, describing each step of his job in a descriptive manner. Then at the end when he begins to tie in the cycles of cellular respiration and photosynthesis and how they function within his process of grinding grain I completely understand what he is talking about because of our studies in class.

[MIchelle]

I really liked this. It was like a connection of cell respiration and photosynthesis. As he explains his actions through the grinder, he explains what is taking place in his body. At the same time he explains the action that took place so that the plants could be there. The cycle of all of this is really exciting. Knowing that because the plant went through the cycle of photosynthesis, that the man running the machine can do this action.

What i really got out of this was a deeper understanding, and better realization. I realized, even as typing right now, i am going through cell respiration, because of the food that i at, and because they went through photosynthesis.