Today in lab we were given slides of plant and animal cells and told to locate, identify, and draw the five stages of mitosis: interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. I KILLED it! I was so excited sitting there, completely in my element, working the microscope like a silentest who has been working in a lab their whole lives, finding them in quick succession. I was so impressed with myself! It really made me remember why I love biology. Mom kept telling me that I just had to go back to why I loved it in the first place, and now I honestly can say I remember. It is the challenge of working with something complicated and tiny and exciting. And how good it feels when you finally figure it out. Its better than any other rush I know. You can score the winning goal at state, you can win a marathon, but it feels just as good when you finally understand DNA. It is amazing to me how complicated our bodies are, down to the tiniest little part of us, and how, when the chance is there thousands of times per second for a life threatening mistake to happen, how rare the mistakes DO happen. All by these little chemicals, enzymes, and molecules floating around in the cells of our body. It is mind boggling to think that these little strands of DNA (not really little, they could wrap around the world three times...but they DO have to be in chromosome form, and at 400x power for us to see them...) make us who we are, make us all different, and yet all the same. And if it weren't for this DNA, we wouldn't be anything at all...
Really makes you think.....even the smallest most seemingly insignificant thing makes a WORLD of difference when you get right too it...
No comments:
Post a Comment