Guys I have a problem:/
See, I can't pay attention in biology because I don't understand it at all(I'm in it now). And, I don't understand it period.
Help?:/
Help?:/
Guys I have a problem:/
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um, what's the lecture about?
Uhm, Atp. And cell respiration.
Ok, that's not hard stuff. What don't you get?
thats pretty easy
:/. I just don't get it. I don't know why.
Were talking about thatt.D:
I've been at those before, but i don't remember a single damn thing -.-
Oh well, Good luck sydd
Oh well, Good luck sydd
Imagine you're building a house (let's say a small house for the sake of comparison; something you can build alone in a day; itty bitty, crummy house, but a house nonetheless). It takes a lot of energy to build a house. By the end, you'd be tired - because you put so much energy into building it.
Now let's say that house falls down. You rip out part of the structure at the bottom, and the house falls. When the house hits the ground, there will be a big boom, because the house is releasing the energy you put into it into the earth. Kinda like if you punched the ground, you'd be releasing energy into the ground (the energy it takes to punch would leave your arm and enter whatever you punched).
So, you put energy into the house to build it, and the house has stored energy while it stands (this is called potential energy, but that's not really related), and when the house falls, it releases that energy you put into it back into the environmet.
ATP is like a house. When your body has too much energy, it uses it to build a house (or whatever building analogy you want to use) - ATP. When your body needs energy, it destroys the ATP by removing a critical structure (one of the three phosphates, if I'm not mistaken), 'causing the ATP (now ADP) to release energy. Your body uses that energy that was released to do whatever it needed it for.
So it takes energy to attach the extra phosphate to ADP, then it releases energy by removing the extra phosphate from ATP.
Is that what you didn't understand?
Plants do a similar thing by converting sunlight to sugar, so that during the night, they can get energy from the sugar they built when the sun isn't out.
ATP also offers the convenience of transportation. You can't punch the air and transfer the energy to a wall a mile away, but you can build a structure, ship it a mile away, and destroy it there. ATP can travel from cell to cell till it finds one in need of energy, and thus give the energy to that cell.
Ah, biology is beautiful.
Now let's say that house falls down. You rip out part of the structure at the bottom, and the house falls. When the house hits the ground, there will be a big boom, because the house is releasing the energy you put into it into the earth. Kinda like if you punched the ground, you'd be releasing energy into the ground (the energy it takes to punch would leave your arm and enter whatever you punched).
So, you put energy into the house to build it, and the house has stored energy while it stands (this is called potential energy, but that's not really related), and when the house falls, it releases that energy you put into it back into the environmet.
ATP is like a house. When your body has too much energy, it uses it to build a house (or whatever building analogy you want to use) - ATP. When your body needs energy, it destroys the ATP by removing a critical structure (one of the three phosphates, if I'm not mistaken), 'causing the ATP (now ADP) to release energy. Your body uses that energy that was released to do whatever it needed it for.
So it takes energy to attach the extra phosphate to ADP, then it releases energy by removing the extra phosphate from ATP.
Is that what you didn't understand?
Plants do a similar thing by converting sunlight to sugar, so that during the night, they can get energy from the sugar they built when the sun isn't out.
ATP also offers the convenience of transportation. You can't punch the air and transfer the energy to a wall a mile away, but you can build a structure, ship it a mile away, and destroy it there. ATP can travel from cell to cell till it finds one in need of energy, and thus give the energy to that cell.
Ah, biology is beautiful.
You are smart, be my biology tutor? 
I can help you. :]
Maybe..
Maybe..
Biology, go ahead and take a nap. Its one of the easiest A's you'll get.
Sydd(: wrote:You are smart, be my biology tutor?
I guess. I'm not bio or science major or anything, but my BFF is, and he's taught me a lot of shit in easy-to-understand terms. Seeing as how I've known him since 2nd grade, he knows exactly how to get any message across to me, so he's pretty much been the only person to teach me science. I mean, I've taken classes and shit, but none of them were as easy as hearing it in the Laymen's terms he offered.
But, yeah. I can help. Just don't be surprised if I don't know something. Also, double check me.
I dont understand it. :/. Its my second time having it[I had it in 7th grade]