Friday, March 25, 2011

Cloning Pets

As  I was reading the article I was thinking if I would want another copy of my dog after he was gone. As a pet owner I can understand why many people want to clone their pets but is it a good idea to clone a pet and pretend like it's the same one? It's good that science has improved over time and they reached to a point where it is possible to do something like that. I'm sure that everyone has different opinions about this article personally I wouldn't want to clone my pet and pretend like it's my dog. It's not possible because my dog is unique even if science can make a duplicate copy of it's physical traits what about the personality, so how can I even pretend like my dog is still with me after cloning him? I would rather live with the memories I created with my dog then to live with the new fake version of my dog. If I were to die tomorrow I wouldn't want my parents to clone me and live with someone that looks like me. So, the fact is that a pet can be cloned but it is never the original pet we once loved. So if someone is still willing to this after knowing all the information then there is nothing wrong with that.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Anerobic Cellular Fermentation

We can definitely function on anaerobic cellular respiration but I don't know if we can rely on it. This process if called Lactic Acid Fermentation- which is when we break down glucose in our cells. This happen while we are exercising our muscle cells obtain very little energy, it produces two ATP molecules instead of 36. So, I wouldn't say we can rely on it. We can keep exercising to produce more ATP's but this can only go on for so long... which is why it's proven that we can survive without food for at least two weeks.
Warm blooded animals are much more active than cold blooded mammals because they can generate their own body heat in cold temperature environment. Warm blooded animals convert their food into energy. Their body requires certain temperature to convert that food in to energy. Cold blooded animal's muscles depend on chemical reactions, which is faster in hot environment and slow in cold, so they tend to be very slow when it's cooler.