L & S C30Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Michael Pollan, Neural Tube Defect, Electrochemical Gradient
2 Mar 2017
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The public health catastrophe that is the modern american diet. In 2012, 49. 0 million people lived in food-insecure households. Crop plants and animals must one again be married on the farm . Sunlight nourishes the grasses and grains, the plants nourish the animals, the animals then nourish the soil, which in turn nourishes the next season"s grasses and grains. The total amount of energy in a universe stays constant: euniversei = esystem + esurroundings. Change in esystem (change in energy in system) Into the environment about you: change in esystem + change in esurroundings = 0. Basic, broad science literacy is a sine qua non of modern civilized society. Animal: c6h12o6 + o2 co2 + h2o + energy, sugar + oxygen carbon dioxide + water + energy, there is, energetically speaking, no difference in this regard between humans and a steam engine train. Storable form: co2 + atp + reducing power c6h12o6.
