In the first section of this page, you will write a daily summary of that day's class.  For example in  your chapter 2 blog, your first entry should be titled 9/3/10.  You should then write a one or two paragraph summary of that day's lecture, outlining the major points.  In the second section, you are required to add two items (link to a website, video, animation, student-created slide show, student-created PowerPoint presentation) and one journal article pertaining to a topic in this chapter.  A one-paragraph summary must accompany each item describing the main idea and how it applies to the lecture topic.  Please see the PBWorks help guide for assistance embedding video and other items directly in the page.  I will also produce a how-to video on using tables to wrap text around items and other useful tips.  Please see the syllabus for organization and grading details.

A.  Daily Blog

10/20/10: This class we talked about how cells store energy and how they prevent energy from being wasted as heat. Cells use glycolysis, acetyl CoA production, and the Citric Acid cycle to conserve energy, which are a total of 20 steps. This class we talked about glycolysis and substrate level phosphorylation along with chemiosmosis. I don't understand any of these that well, and only wrote down bits and pieces of what I heard. I really need to go over these steps with Dr. Weber, but I'll try to look up some of the steps on my own. I do know that glycolysis has about 10 steps that are broken down into three phases: energy investment, cleavage, and energy liberation. Kinase is a protein that transfers phosphate from ATP and helps the cell use this as energy.

10/22/10: We continued to discuss how cells conserve energy. We discussed the net products of glycolysis, but I'm having trouble understanding this, as well as the steps. This class we did go over the rest of the steps in glycolysis, however I was confused and didn't want to hold back the class. In glycolysis, a hydrogen ion goes the NAD+ which forms NADH, and type of energy. Two NADH are formed total, and this process is called dehydrogenase. Decarboxylation is when a COO leaves the cycle and becomes carbon dioxide, a waste product that cells release into the blood stream and eventually go out of the body.

B.  Useful Materials

This video is quite long, but it discusses glycolysis in great detail.

A shorter video that describes glycolysis in a much more condensed way.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/x98h746v5n712645/ 

     This PubMed article discusses coding sequences and enzymes used in strawberry cells' glycolysis. We talked about glycolysis in both classes, which this article relates to.