Uni5 Biochemical Energy Conversion
This article is written for the Biochemistry students visiting Uni5 School in Coimbatore on Sep 18th 2015. The article guides what the college students can connect to the Biochemistry concepts observing the one year to five year old children at the Uni5 Sakthi Schools.
In Uni5 concept, we define Biochemistry is about how the Physical Energy is converted from one form to another through various chemical reactions in Biological systems.
Example, how the Energy from sun is trapped by plants through chemical reactions (Photo synthesis) and stored as food. The energy in the food is then broken down by enzymatic chemical reactions in body and converted into ATP which then drives mechanical actions (Muscle contractions), physicological processes, biochemical processes etc.
This Energy convertion occurs in five steps. Energy undergoes expansion (Sun's energy expanded and reaches all planets, like Earth). Then the Sun's Energy localizes in plant. There it interacts with the components like water, NADPH etc, resulting into transformation to glucose, which is then stably stored as starch.
Children learn these five patterns in their baby language as Space, Air, Fire, Water and Earth, the five Pancha Bhootas. These five Energy converting pattern can be seen right from the convertion of
Space-Time Energy into quarks, protons, electrons,
then to atoms, elements in periodic table, to molecules, to compounds,
then to organells, cells, tissues, organs, systems, body,
then to family, neighbourhood, community, town
then to state, coutnry, continent, world, Universe.
This Energy pattern learning is the very backbone of Bharath Indian ancient heritage, which has stood the test of time for eons. More details in this link.http://uni5.co/index.php/uni5-education-system-ues-2/uni5-school-energy-pattern
The Biochemistry students can connect to their subject, by integrating the differnent conceptual tools used by Uni5 children. They also connect these five to their own being.
The students can understand how these comcepts if introduced in the early years can make learning easy and efficient, especially at college level.
The Students also can give creative suggestions to teachers and also to Uni5 Sakthi Foundation how to implement in their college level and also other schools. The students can start looking at Biochemistry from this Energy transformation point of view and make their learning easy and also apply future in their jobs to be creative and helping themselves, humanity and other beings.
Caution: Students are asked to look at the tools not as religious images, but as scientific Energy convertion concepts. Ofcourse they can see religious-cultural aspects in the school aswell.
Other references
http://uni5.co/index.php/uni5-education-system-ues-2/uni5-school-energy-pattern
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Structural_Biochemistry/Metabolism_Coupled_Reactions
Universal energy principle of biological systems and the unity of bioenergetics.
Energy stability is what all forms of Energy (physical, chemical, mathematical, biological and Spiritual) moves towards.
Sourced from the book - Universal Selftual Energy Pattern -2016
Modern science sources:
What is ATP - https://www.trueorigin.org/atp.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_transformation
concept Map
https://prezi.com/uux54usgw8nz/laws-of-energy-transformation/
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/87371/why-a-system-should-be-at-its-lowest-energy-state-for-its-stability
http://environ.andrew.cmu.edu/m3/s3/07stability.shtml
http://msg2018.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/1/0/16101502/biochemistry_sheet_6.pdf
