Hello everyone! My name is Kimmie
Huynh (pronounced Hun). I am an Integrative Biology Major studying
for pre-med. I decided to take this course because I thought that it
would be very interesting, as well as helping me with my own major. I
find it interesting to learn how things have evolved and adapted over
time.
The first blog that I found was about
drug resistant bacteria. The blog talks about how doctors and
patients were both responsible for the evolution of drug resistant
bacteria. Doctors for over prescribing antibiotics, and patients for
not always finishing their prescriptions for the antibiotics. The
blog also talked about how antibiotics are given to livestock to
expedite growth, and it is causing new strains of E. coli that humans
are now contracting. It just goes to show that people need to be more
educated and responsible for the things that they do.
http://scienceblogs.com/thepumphandle/2012/11/14/getting-smarter-about-antibiotics-in-some-parts-of-the-country-at-least/
The second blog that I read was about
the natural selection occurring today. In the first reading from our
textbook, there was a section that talked about how 'ancestral women'
experienced 150 or less menstrual cycles in their lifetime. While
today a women will experience 350-400 menstrual cycles within her
lifetime. These jumps in estrogen levels are having negative effects
on women, sometimes causing breast or ovarian cancer. The women of
today’s world are working women. Which means that pregnancy is
often times postponed until a women is near the end of her
child-bearing years.
The final blog that I read was about
methlyation deserts causing 'neurocognitive disorders'. It talked
about how doctors were able to pinpoint likely spots for mutation and
are also able to link that to disorders. I find these studies
extremely interesting. Because diseases are always evolving, it is a
world where there is always something new being discovered.
Bye:)
Hi Kimmie! Just a quick note that you provided blog *posts* rather than *blogs,* which is what the assignment prompt requested. I'm just letting you know for next time.
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