Thursday, February 25, 2010


Why are the chloroplast and the mitochondria designed the way they are.

The mitochondria and the chloroplast are designed for efficiency. The chloroplast has a big surface their for it can let in more sun light witch brings in energy rich sugar called glucose.

The mitochondria also is efficient because the inner membrane has a large surface area and the larger the surface area the faster the glucose can be turned into ATP a molecule on energy. This energy in stored in side.

Both the mitochondria and the chloroplast organelles were designed with efficiency in mind.
see the photo the more thylakolds the more glucose can be made.

Monday, February 8, 2010

cells

I never knew that people used to think that diseases were caused by curses.

But microscopes changed the world.

Anton van leeuewhook the first person to look under a microscope at water.

Later microscopes could magnify up to 1-500 with series of lenses.

Robert hook studied cork the dead cells of oak bark. Electron microscopes was invented in the 1940's. The beam of electrons magnified up to 500.000

times the real size. Two types of electron microscopes

1) Scanning electron microscopes scans the surface of cells tho dimensional shape.

2) Transmission electron microscopes study the structure of cells.