wildsunflower2 Posted September 8, 2005 Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 What do you think a biological perspective of energy would be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boerseun Posted September 8, 2005 Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 Hi, WildSunflower2 - and welcome to Hypography, by the way. As to your question, what a biological perspective of energy would be... hmmmm... Kinda hard to answer, without you elaborating a bit more. But - faced with what we have for a question, I'd say it would be whatever you'd get in terms of calories from a given food source. Or you can simplify it even further: If I eat that yucky slimy snotty green worm, I'd be able to lift a brick 4 feet into the air! But then, humans have been considering energy down to the atomic level for quite a couple of years, now. And humans certainly qualify as having a biological perspective, don't you think? So - in actual fact, you should expand on your question, ever so slightly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleAl Posted September 8, 2005 Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 There is thermodynamics, nothing more. There is nothing metaphysical about biology - ask a philosopher to cure hemhorroids while his pursues his vocation in that neighborhood. If it is well behaved in a closed system then equilibrium thermodynamics, dissipation, and entropy. If it is energetic and far from equilibrium or in an open system, then non-equilibrium thermodynamics (Ilya Prigogine) and it spontaneously self-orders while approach to equilibirum can be oscillatory. If it is global rather than local, then the Bekenstein bound on thermodynamics gives you General Relativity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infamous Posted September 8, 2005 Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 What do you think a biological perspective of energy would be?Welcome to Hypography wildsunflower2. BTW, I agree with Boerseun. You'll need to focus the structure of your question a bit. Maybe we can then develop our discussion with a more pointed approach? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Mind Posted September 9, 2005 Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 I'm assuming wildsunflower2 is talking about energy substitutes for gas, oil, and electricity :shrug:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishteacher73 Posted September 9, 2005 Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 Predators constantly weigh the cost vs gain of energy in obtaining prey. Autotrophs orient themselves for maximum absorption. This ability os one of the main driving factors behind nautural selection and gradualism, IMO. Granted there are other factors that drastically alter the equation (sudden environmental shifts, new predator/prey interaction, and of course sex). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildsunflower2 Posted September 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 This is exactly what I'm trying to answer. Sorry I was pretty vague to begin with. What is a simple definition of energy from the biological perspective? Give some examples where energy is used in a cell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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