second highest mark in Biology among students throughout India, in the Final Board Examinations, I confidently chose the field of Biotechnology as my Undergraduate Program in the Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, affiliated to the Anna University (Chennai). This choice enabled me to learn the major techniques, study the variety of course offerings in the Biology concentration and use them for research that would help me in my career in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & in my Masters. Being
have taken is fundamentally providing global awareness of public health issues from a socioeconomic, environmental, and biological perspective to the general public. Courses such as Public Health Science 1: Human Health and Disease and Biology 179: Cancer Biology can illustrate a vital connection with the pathway theme. For example, Public Health Science 1: Human Health and Disease course focuses on the improvement of avoiding preventable diseases by designing specific interventions to target certain
battle against cancer has grown more difficult because ways to treat and cure patients has significantly narrowed. Cancer has become the greatest medical mystery due to inconclusive facts about the disease that remain unresolved. Therefore treatments like chemotherapy and radiation are showing less and less results and it is becoming more evident that cancer is being driven by the selective pressure of natural selection. This is why many scientists and researchers have begun to view cancer from an evolutionary
understandable. If someone who knew nothing about genetics or biology were to read this book, they would find it very interesting and informative. Ridley uses basic scientific terms so as not to confuse the average reader. Ridley, who has a Ph.D. in zoology, is a big supporter of the Darwinian view of the world. He views the genome as a historical documentation of our species from its conception. He describes our evolutionary history. He tells about the mass extinctions that occurred in the
amino acids may possess either the D or L configuration, amino acids within proteins almost exclusively possess the latter, as this allows proteins to have binding sites with three-dimensional properties matching those of their ligands. From an evolutionary standpoint, the existence of D-amino acids in certain proteins and peptides is highly beneficial since many D-amino acid-containing peptides participate in defense roles. This group includes antibiotic activities of secreted peptides against neighboring
After Studying Biology Epidemiologist Epidemiologists solve disease mysteries. They are scientists who figure out what causes a certain disease and why some people get the disease and why some people don't. Then they can tell people how to help prevent the disease. Epidemiologists study many different diseases, such as cancer and heart disease. They often study epidemics, which are unusual outbreaks of diseases. Forensic biology Forensic biology involves the
Gould slowly made his name be known. While in graduate school, Stephen Gould met fellow graduate student Niles Eldredge and they both began to study the many snail fossils. In a New York Times article Stephen Jay Gould, 60, is Dead; Enlivened Evolutionary Theory (2002), it is stated that “the two students could not find the gradual, continuous change in fossil forms that they were taught was the stuff of evolution. Instead they found sudden appearances of new fossil forms followed by long periods
chaperones could also play a role in the trafficking of parasitic proteins into the erythrocyte (3,12). Targeting a HSP is an emerging concept in cancer therapy. For example, the HSP90 inhibitor 17-allylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin (17AAG) is currently tested for its chemo sensitizing effects in phase II clinical trials, with encouraging results in melanoma cancers as a chemo sensitizing agent (13,14). This derivative of geldanamycin, an ansamycin antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces hygroscopicus, associates
The Triple Helix written by Richard Lewontin and The Beak of the Finch written by Jonathan Weiner transport the reader to the world of evolutionary theories. Although both authors discuss the evolution of species, they take distinctive and different approaches as they describe to the reader their specific scope of evolution itself. These differences are seen throughout both novels and the conclusions made on evolution from both authors challenge each reader’s individual belief on natural selection
species. As such, both the high sequence divergence value and the disconnected parsimony network suggest that cryptic taxa may possibly be present in A. indicus and A. sibogae and they have been evolving independently for a significantly period of evolutionary time. However, since mtDNA has a higher rate of evolution and thus more mutations, than nuclear genes, it is essential to have genealogical data from nuclear genes which are biparently inherited to establish the status of these two clades.