Lots of lecture today and I was very excited to find out the implications that this research has. With the splitting of water comes the vast possibility of endless energy and power for our future growing population. Humans are so cool. I look at this from an ecological perspective indeed which is why humans have not yet reached carrying capacity and I discuss this with my students as part of our standards all the time. Additionally, this has implications for drug interactions since humans are composed of 60% membrane proteins and drugs target these in particular. Plants are even more complicated- again another twist on the order and complexity of our classification system. It would indeed indicate that plants are much more complex and have to be especially in their defense mechanisms since they cannot move.
Additionally, we worked an ultra-centrifuge today and will be working with x-ray diffraction soon. The patterns are truly beautiful... hauntingly so- since they are so complex. Revisting vocabulary from my MS. Am very excited about the ecological standpoint of this!
Crystals are beautiful and my students would love to create them and I could then extrapolate upon solubility curves, titration, salt concentrations etc.
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