Cell Communication
Go to http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/insidestory/. Read the article and watch the video.
How does cell communication work? What molecules does it use to function?
Why do you think that these types of communication are beneficial to organisms?
Go to http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/fight_flight/ and read the article.
What is fight or flight?
Diagram the process of communication that your body goes through in order to respond to a “Fight or Flight” situation in the space below.
Do you think that you have ever experienced a fight or flight response?
Go to http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/badcom/ and read about what happens when cell signaling goes wrong.
What effect might this have on your body?
Why is it beneficial to know about this?
Go to the Dropping Signals website.
In the following activity you will be clicking on 5 different cell types, and then recording you observations into a data table explaining how each cell responded to the different chemical signals.
Cell Type / Response to Chemical Signal