This week\u2019s lecture from Professor Suegene Noh was about Genomes and the link between the humanities and sciences of genetics and biology. I haven\u2019t taken a Biology course in a while but was still able to understand the majority of points she brought up just because she did an excellent job breaking down terminology and concepts with very basic explanations. That being said I wasn\u2019t able to understand everything that was said just simply because I did not know what some of the things discussed were. However, it is just truly mindboggling to even consider the type of work she has done and can do with technology nowadays to be able to read such enormous amounts of DNA sequences in such an extraordinary pace.<\/p>\n
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I also thought it was particularly interesting to hear that the majority of research done into \u201cDicty\u201d had been using the same lab samples for decades. I figured almost every experiment would typically go and retrieve a wild sample for testing and learning this was common practice to just continue new studies and tests using the same sample or strain was surprising. Specifically in dealing with fields like genomics this seemed really counterproductive because each individual sample should have unique variations to study. This made me wonder how many other things show up in tests that are often using the same samples from previous studies and therefor generalizing often about species and organisms.<\/p>\n
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This being said I think research like this is especially important because we have this new and incredible technology at our hands and are now able to learn so much about the DNA sequencing of all organisms. I can see this field expanding rapidly and becoming one of the more sought after and discussed topics in the near future. It is also interesting to consider this in terms of our presence of the past theme. As Professor Noh proved with this study, Dicty work together to form multicellular organisms and this is an obviously recurring theme throughout history and it is especially relevant in our modern age as well. There are countless examples throughout history of people working together to fight for a just cause or just to fight for survival and it is always true that working together is the best way to solve large issues or to simply improve.<\/p>\n
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I think this is really intriguing to consider on a global scale since microscopic organisms such as Dicty really make up so much of our planet. We still have so many species we have yet to discover and it is amazing to learn so much from such small organisms. Again tying this back into the humanities it is almost poetic because we have an absurd amount of humans and therefor-human interactions throughout our lives. Considering this fact in relation to the idea that working together is always the best way to improve our world, it becomes clear that with the correct motivation and the right cause we could do some extremely incredible things if we all worked together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week\u2019s lecture from Professor Suegene Noh was about Genomes and the link between the humanities and sciences of genetics and biology. I haven\u2019t taken a Biology course in a while but was still able to understand the majority of points she brought up just because she did an excellent job breaking down terminology and … <\/p>\n