Saturday, February 18, 2012

What knowledge have you connected with past knowledge?



            A lot of the information that we’ve covered so far this semester has been a review. Beginning with the first chapter where we covered things such as the structural organization of the human body from simple to complex, I can recall learning about this back in junior high science. It’s interesting to see over time how there are specific pieces of information are constantly reinforced even up until the college level.
            Many of the things that we’ve also covered so far including hydrogen and covalent bonds, dipole moments, definitions of organelles, and pH are also terms I have seen consistently throughout my education in the sciences. I’ve also related some of the information to psychology classes I’ve taken including the positive feedback mechanism that was covered with small peptide hormones because I had previously learned about positive and negative reinforcements.
            Some of this information has been helpful for my further understanding of in classes I’m also taking now such as Organic Chemistry II. It has helped me have a strong understanding of the basic foundation of things such as the breakdown of amino acids. I’m also sure that the new information that I have acquired up until this point in the semester I will connect many times in my future in medicine.  


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