Anna Driga-Ferguson
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Location Kuala Lumpur
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Thank you!
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2, 2, 2 & 1 (I didn't engage much in week 1 but more later on).
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I think that synthetic biology could be particularly useful for helping treat genetic diseases. It could also be used to enhance food production. Using synthetic biology to increase food production does not raise many ethical concerns, yet some people may worry about using synthetic biology on humans, especially if the diseases being treated are autosomal....
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I think that, on average, gene editing techniques would have a positive effect, yet there are some cases where the negative aspects still outweigh the positives. I voted yes, but it really depends on the specific case in question.
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I think that alternative energy could replace fossil fuels some time in the future, but that time is still far away. Now, in more developed countries, it may be easier to implement renewable energy, yet in less developed countries, this process will take a much longer time. Some more developed countries could be fully renewable in the near future, yet it will...
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Yes, I understood the past few concepts well as we had learnt the concepts both in GCSE biology and chemistry.
In biology, we were taught that aerobic respiration releases far more energy than anaerobic respiration.
In chemistry, we were taught about exothermic and endothermic reactions in more detail than described here, so I could understand why some... -
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(I haven't done this experiment so these are just guesses.)
I would probably expect the potato soaked in hydrogen peroxide to give off effervescence as the enzymes in the potato should turn the hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen. So the bubbles would contain the oxygen given off in this experiment. The washing up liquid would also become foamy because of... -
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Biochemistry is basically how chemistry relates to life. I don't think there is any way of considering one science without considering the others, so biochemistry is a great way to explain biology using chemistry. Chemistry is part of everything, so we need it to explain biological processes and the phenomenon of life.
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We did this in biology class at school, right before lockdown. It actually worked really well, with about half the class actually getting white strands in their mixture. Our group even managed to get a strand out of the mixture, but it broke almost immediately. We used kiwi, and green washing up liquid, so the mixture was a pale green colour, but the DNA...
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I think that biochemistry definitely helps improve many personal skills, with the most useful probably being research and analytical skills, as these skills are necessary in the research careers that many biochemists go into.
From this course, I am probably just aiming to gain more proactiveness and the ability to think independently, rather than just... -
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Hi, I joined this course because I'm just doing a lot of courses lately. I will take both biology and chemistry A levels (I'm in year 11 now), and I was looking into a career in something science-related, maybe medicine, so this course seemed to be useful to give me some background information.
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Yes, there is a possibility of us finding life on other planets, intelligent life, or it finding us. I think that it is highly likely that other civilisations exist, however, it is unlikely that they will be found in the human civilisation's lifetime. Maybe later civilisations would find other civilisations, but I think that the chance of a civilisation...
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There is a debate going on about whether or not Mars used to support life, with some rocks believed to contain microbial fossils, and ravines believed to have once contained water. However, now, there is no life on Mars, unless it maybe survives underground.
Other planets, such as K2-18b, may contain life. K2-18b is twice the size of Earth, and eight times... -
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The assumptions seem to be a good way for scientists to search for any lifeforms on other planets. If it worked on Earth, it might work somewhere else? If a sea or water is seen through telescopes on a planet, it is possible that there is life there. The possession of clouds may also indicate the presence of water.
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Telescopes have to be very powerful to capture images of any planets outside our solar system. Also, the telescopes may have to be launched at least out of Earth's atmosphere, maybe even out of the solar system.
Land-based telescopes may simply be not powerful enough to capture images of exoplanets through Earth's atmosphere. However, it requires a lot of... -
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I have found that the NASA website has a lot of useful information, and I have also found out about the very similar atmosphere to Earth that Titan has. I also have gained more knowledge about how space missions are conducted and techniques used to study planets and their atmospheres.
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The Huygen's space probe is still sitting on Titan, probably covered in the planet's dust. It's battery was only supposed to last for around three hours, so when the battery ran out, it just sat there.
Space telescopes and satellites are either slowed down so that they fall into Earth and burn up in the atmosphere, or, if they are further away, they are sent... -
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The Cassini probe took images across multiple light spectra, detected dust particles & characterised Saturn's plasma environment & magnetosphere. This information helps us understand the nature of Jovian planets such as Saturn.
The Juno mission also is taking images and characterising Jupiter's magnetosphere. It also is detecting plasma waves and microwaves... -
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Both Earth and Titan consist primarily of nitrogen, wh
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I did Earth so I'm pretty sure that there are never going to be any missions here, since we already live here. Well, the atmosphere was determined by taking samples of the air around us.
Jupiter:
- Missions orbiting Jupiter measure its atmospheric composition.
- In 1973, Pioneer 10 flew past Jupiter. From 1995-2003, Galileo conducted an active mission to... -
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Julia's information related to my research because the atmospheric compositions for Earth and Jupiter were the same as I researched them to be.
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I searched on Google and found a lot of info on Nat Geo, so I think that that is reputable.
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I was mainly taught in primary school, and then I read a lot of magazines and books about space. I also learnt a little bit in GCSE Physics, but not much, really.
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Yes, health is definitely a political choice, and a change in political system could drastically change the levels of health inequities in a country. For example, universal health coverage could be achieved by the USA, yet the government has decided to privatise healthcare, meaning many people are put into debt because they had to pay massive amounts of money...
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The tobacco industry employs a lot of people, so decreasing its size would inevitably lead to a loss of jobs. Also, so many people are already addicted to tobacco products that preventing them from smoking legally would inevitably lead to many people breaking the law to smoke and protesting against these new laws.
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There is a complex interaction between the socioeconomic factors that affect health. Health is definitely affected by socioeconomic factors, things such as fast food have made an unhealthy lifestyle cheaper to follow than a healthy lifestyle.
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I think that globalisation, on a whole, has had a positive impact on health, although this positive impact is lowered by the numerous negative consequences that result from globalisation.
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Its weird, because in some places there are more medicines than necessary, while others don't have enough. The issues is with distributing pharmaceuticals where needed.
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If I was the chief of a global tobacco company, I would obviously say that the WHO FCTC is not good because my whole living relies on tobacco being sold. However, in real life, tobacco products are definitely harmful, therefore I would agree with this statement.
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Globalisation has definitely affected me. I was born to a Russian mum and a British dad, and I have lived my whole life in countries on the other side of the world from what would be considered my 'home' countries. My friends are from all around the world, with very few being from the same countries that I am. For those in the Asian countries I have lived in,...
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Malaysia has achieved UHC, although it is not at as high a standard as the NHS in the UK, or UHC in other European countries, there is still access to free healthcare in public hospitals.
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Everyone should vaccinate their children, it should be mandatory for everyone to vaccinate their children, if the vaccine has been deemed to be safe.
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One of the main bans that is found in many countries is the ban of smoking in many public places, as smoking does not only hurt the person smoking themselves, it hurts those around them too.
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To me, global health is about trying to provide everyone with a reasonable standard of healthcare, regardless of their location and background. Everyone should play their own part in the system, having a social responsibility to do what they can to improve the health of themselves and others.
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I have joined this course to improve my ability to make an impact on the world.
