Synthesis

Synthesis essay

           

Through my blog on genomics I have realized that genetics is probably the fastest changing field in science today.  It seems like almost daily something big comes up that totally alters a branch of genetic research. Whether it’s new ways that people can cure or eliminate cancer or trying to bring a mammoth back to life using its genetic material genomics is a very crazy field. 

At the start of this project, I didn’t really know all that much about genetics. This is apparent due to my short blog posts due to not being able to understand different complex wording or fully understand how much an allele or even a gene effects an individual. However, as time progressed I was able to understand more and more until it was almost no problem to read about how different DNA strands could be changed by simply altering a single aspect of a seemingly totally unrelated genetic piece.

Genetics has the potential to save millions of lives. This could be through either altering their body physically of using science to change the molecular chemistry of plants in order to make them produce more food or make them denser in certain vitamins. Its really strange to think that something so small could have so a huge impact on life on earth. Walking into this project, I really had no idea how vast of an impact my field was making on people and the world as a whole.

The most difficult part of doing a project is keeping up. There are so many deadlines that once you start falling behind it is tough to get back on schedule. This is a problem I ran into and am in the midst of correcting in my project. The thing that I believe saved me is the fact that once I finally got to a point where I understood what I was reading, I was able to make posts that were lengthy and covered vast amounts of content. The only aspects that I wish I had been able to include in my blog are the process’s that genes are transferred from one specimen to another. This topic has been really interesting to me but finding an article that accurately describes it has been very difficult.

The knowledge that I’ve learned through this project will help me as long as I stay in the field that I am majoring in. at the moment I am trying to become a doctor but if something catastrophic happens in medical school then this has always been something that has interested me greatly.

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