Monday, February 13, 2017

Weekly Reflection for Week of February 6-February 12

  • How did you do on the work?
I believe that I've done well on the work, it has been a little hard to do the stop go animation. I had a bit of a hard time on the process that is needed to do the project.

  • What do you think you understand well? Where do you think you have to improve?
I think I understand the biotechnology when its explained, but when it is just the basics without any thing else I'm having a little trouble with it. I understand most of everything other than the restriction enzymes in detail.

  • What strategies will you use to improve?
I will look it up and watch videos, I already enjoy looking at things like that (its also in crime shows!!)

  • How does the work we are doing fit into the context/narrative of the course?
Once again, genetics, genes, information! Biology is all about the study of life and how life pushes its information through. Biotechnology is just showing how the information is pushed/changed and it pushes the medical field further.

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Weekly Reflection for Week of January 30-February 5


  • How did you do on the work?
I like to think that I have done well on the work. But the thing with work is, is that I usually think I understand it, but then it turns out that I have it all backwards. But with genetics: DNA and RNA, I feel like I have a solid background on it. So to sum it up nicely, I feel like I have done well on the work.

  • What do you think you understand well?
I understand RNA pretty well, like its function, its structure and the same goes for DNA.

  • Where do you think you have to improve?
I know that I have to improve on understanding the replication of DNA and RNA. I'm confused about it, but not too lost.

  • What strategies will you use to improve?
I will certainly rewatch the vodcasts/reread the prezis that are available on that information. Then, if that doesn't help, then watch youtube videos on it along with reading the text fully.

  • How does the work we are doing fit into the context/narrative of the course?
Genetics are the back bone of life besides the information of adaptation and energy transfer (which is a lot of stuff). Biology is the study of life, without DNA/RNA complex life (and life as we know it) would not exist. So of course it fits into the context/narrative of this course.