Thursday, April 5, 2012

What knowledge have you connected with past knowledge?

My favorite part of biochemistry, besides learning all the new and exciting information from lecture, is the biochemistry connection presentations. For example, I presented why we need to eat more salmon and found out what omega-3 really does and how it can help prevent heart disease and such.

I'm concurrently taking genetics with biochemistry so it's interesting that as we move further along in the processes of replication, transcription, and translation, I get a more broad explanation in genetics and then actually discover the biochemical processes that go on in more detailed perspective in biochemistry. Some of which include names of specific enzymes and what they do.

Also, this class has allowed me to make farther connections and clarified previous random biological facts that I've learned over the past couple of years that made no sense at the time.