10 pts Please respond to one of the below prompts A B or C You may respond to multiple prompts if you wish but only one response is required Multiple responses will not earn extra points beyond 10 pts 10 pts Comment on at least one of your peers responses with feedback The peer you respond to does not have to be on the same prompt you responded to for example if you respond to B for your first post you can comment on someone s post to prompt A or C Your comments could ask a question of the original poster give constructive feedback or respond to their comment If you disagree or wish to correct information posted by your peer please be sure to do so kindly Prompt A Columns 1 2 and 13 18 Groups 1A 8A of the periodic table all share an important trait The column tells you how many valence electrons an atom has In Group 1A Hydrogen Lithium and sodium all have 1 valence electron In group 2A Beryllium and magnesium have 2 valence electrons In group 3A Boron has 3 valence electrons In group 4A Carbon and Silicon have 4 valence electrons This means both Carbon and Silicon can make 4 covalent bonds Theorize why do we only see carbon based life If Silicon can make 4 bonds shouldn t it be able to make all the same structures Carbon does Research a little is Silicon based life likely to exist Prompt B The four macromolecules covered in chapter 5 not only make up the majority of our diet and make up our bodies We are what we eat after all What we choose to eat has a lot of factors going into it but it never hurts to be better informed Choose one of the macromolecules in the chapter and make a post about its affect on our diet For example proteins what are essential amino acids Can we get them from a plant based diet Or what is more calorie dense carbohydrates or fats Are trans fats still added to our foods or present in our foods What are hydrogenated oils Or you can choose your own prompt regarding the four macromolecules Prompt C In chapter 6 we learn about cells and all the components that make up a cell We only have time to touch on the basics of each organelle in this course but there s a lot more to each of them in fact cell biology is an entire semester long upper division course at 4 year universities and sometimes even multiple semesters For this prompt choose one of the organelles you find interesting and do some research on it Pubmed and Google Scholar are great places to find new cutting edge research Locate an article you find interesting about your chosen organelle link it here and provide a very short 1 2 line summary of the