Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Science



It
is actually rather fascinating seeing all of the different ways that the
sciences overlap one another. For
example, I am taking Biology 100 and Psychology 111 right now. In both classes, we have talked about the
same sodium ion channel within cells, although for different reasons. It was applicable in Bio because we were
talking about enzymes that can correctly bond with certain elements and that
can only bond with that specific chemical, and that the channel serves the purpose of keeping other undesirable chemicals out.
However, in Psychology we talked about it because that is how neurons
fire within the brain. The neuron
receives a stimulus and then lets in a lot of sodium ions to send the signal
down the neuron and into the next neuron.
That is how the brain communicates throughout the entire body, and how
the body sends messages to the brain. I
thought that it was impressive how often the sciences all overlap, no matter
how far apart they might seem, just as psychology and biology might seem. Although that is actually what scientists are
trying to do. They are trying to create
the Unifying Theory of the Universe by putting all of the different sciences
together to create laws that apply across all sciences. All of these similarities in the sciences are
used in many different ways, which just shows that one thing can serve several
functions across many different types of fields.



Jamey Jones

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