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You might not want to try AP bio if you can’t answer that…

look at the mitochondria in perticular. They are located in the cells of organisms and provide energy. They do this using a great deal of chemistry.

You could also do a letter on how oxygen bonds to hemoglobin in the blood. Quite a bit of chemistry in that too.

Or the buffer solution that keeps our blood at a pH of 7.4

Or……. The production of acid in the stomach or the creation of bases in the duedinium (I know I spelt that wrong)…..

Photosynthesis in plants.

Lots of stuff. Think about anything in biology and think about how it lives

Why leave chemistry for biology? Chemistry is so much more interesting. Well it is when you get out of school and study it in Uni anyway.

Basically all life *is* chemistry. Our cells are made of proteins, which are polymers made of amino acids. Every signal in our body uses chemistry. Whether it be the potentials created in our nervous system by unbalanced concentrations of potassium or the complex hormones that trigger such reactions, biology, in it’s most atomic form is chemistry.

When you think of biological terms such as osmosis, oxygenation, blood pH, the carbon cycle, the citric acid cycle, global warming, the greenhouse effect, it’s all chemistry.

Sure, naming body parts isn’t chemistry, but naming what the body parts are made of, is.

All living things are all made up of chemicals. That is why today we can measure the PH of living things by measuring the acidity or alkalinity of the living thing.

chemistry is used quite alot in biology for example when you study the depolariztion of nerve cells and the concentration of Na+ or K outside the cell and since carbon is almost 18.5% of our bodies or stuff like that