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! Dr. Mahlon Hoagland, Project Scientific Leader Dr. Mahlon Hoagland received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1948 and served on its faculty for 18 years. He was subsequently Director of the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research for 15 years. His main scientific contributions were in the area of protein biosynthesis, having discovered the mechanism of amino acid activation and, with P.C. Zamecnik, transfer RNA. He authored some 70 scientific papers, 5 books for the public (2 of which won the American Medical Writers Award) He won the Franklin Medal in 1976, was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and ended his career as Visiting Professor of Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School Bert Dodson, Graphics and Presentation Bert Dodson is a painter, teacher, author and illustrator. He has illustrated over 80 books for children. He has authored two books on drawing: Keys to Drawing (North Light, 1985), and Keys to Drawing with Imagination (North Light, 2006). In the 1980s he created the political comic strip, Nuke, which was published in two volumes, as Nuke; A Book of Cartoons (McFarland and Company, Jeffersonville, NC, 1988), and Nuke II; Another Book of Cartoons (1990). He co-authored, with the biologist, Mahlon Hoagland, The Way Life Works (Times Books, 1995), and Intimate Strangers; Unseen Life on Earth (ASM Press, 1999). He was animation designer for the four part PBS television series, Intimate Strangers (1998). He regularly exhibits his

watercolors and drawings. For several years he has been illustrating Opera Stories for Children, a series commissioned by The New York Metropolitan Opera. ! Judith Hoagland Hauck, Writing and Education Judith was a teacher of Special Education for 12 years, and has been a Developmental Editor of biology, cell biology, statistics, environmental science, astronomy, physics, chemistry and organic chemistry textbooks for the last 19 years. She is a co-author with Mahlon Hoagland and Bert Dodson of the textbook Exploring the Way Life Works. Judith received her undergraduate degree in French and Zoology from Mount Holyoke College, and her MAT from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also studied in the Critical and Creative Thinking in Science and Technology CAGS program at University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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Energy Light to Life

How living creatures transform energy, and how energy flows through organisms and through communities.
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Making Bonds Molecular Changes Life and The Laws of Energy ATPThe Energy Molecule EnzymesLifes Clever Workers Enzymes and ATPA Dynamic Duo Energy Flow Through LifeA Macro View Energy Flow Through LifeA Micro View The Chloroplast Ballroom PhotosynthesisUsing Sunlight to Make Sugar Three Cheers for Carbon
Doing ScienceVan

Helmonts Experiment

RespirationBreaking Down Sugar to Make ATP

Doing ScienceOxygen

Discovered

Glycolysis
Doing SciencePasteurs

Wine

Getting Energy to the Community

Things you will learn about in this book

active sites ADP (adenosine diphosphate) aerobic and anaerobic processes ATP (adenosine triphosphate) autotrophs bond energy Calvin Cycle carbon catalysts chemical bonds chlorophyll chloroplasts electron acceptors and electron flow entropy enzymes equilibrium fermentation first law of thermodynamics food chains glycolysis kinetic energy making molecules metabolism mitochondria photons photosynthesis pigments respiration second law of thermodynamics sugar , thylakoid

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