The stuff that we learned today was super interesting. The fact that all of this stuff can go on inside a tiny cell continues to blow my mind on a daily basis. Millions of reactions every second, energy going into molecules and coming out of molecules. Every single day I am more and more interested. I love it.
When you went more into depth into the Krebs Cycle, I realized for the first time, that whatever I put into my body has a real affect on how I feel, all the way down to a molecule approach. Every day, I have some junk food that lacks the elements that I literally need to survive and make get the energy that is essential to my daily functions.
One question that I would have is what happens to the stuff that is in food that is not the stuff that goes into cellular respiration. Or does everything go in? How is it broken down and transported? I will ask this in class, but it was on my mind.
I cannot say how much this still blows my mind. Literally I cannot wrap my mind around the fact that a little thing called an enzyme can put in energy into a bond and put an element onto a molecule. It is actually absolutely incredible. Most kids learn this stuff and they just look at it as more stuff. When I learn it, I think of it as a miracle from God, giving us life. One more time. incredible.
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