Biology

Biology is the study of life, its chemical and physical components, and interactions. Below are some questions that I'm hoping you'll have good answers to by the end of the year. 

1. How many types of cells are there and what do they all do?

2. Why can't I run as fast over long distances as I can over short distances?

3. How does my skin grow back after I scrape my knee, and why does it sometimes scar?

4. What is all life on earth made of?

5. Why do I have to have something in common with people biologically I'm related to?

6. Why is it true to say that every living thing is a mutant?

7. What actually happens in a plant's cell that turns air and water into food?

8. Why could plants live without animals but animals can't live without plants?

9. How can the carbon atoms in your fingernails have been part of a dinosaur, a mountain, in the ocean, and above the clouds.

10. Why are some physical or behavioral traits more common in some populations of organisms than others?

11. Why is it that organisms seem so perfectly fit for the environments that they are found in?

12. How come all of the running I did growing up didn't cause my kids to be able to run faster?

13. Why do changes in environmental conditions often cause some populations to thrive while others are hurt?

14. Why doesn't every population evolve at the same rate?

15. What evidence supports the idea that all living things are related and have changed over many thousands of generations?

16. Why do we think that working together is actually a genetic trait?

17. What types of matter and energy are commonly cycled through organisms and ecosystems?

18. What price tag would you put an ecosystem?

19. How do or did other cultures deal with managing ecosystems?