I managed to survived Week 1, thankfully. Hehe.
Other courses are starting to get too much on my plate with the never ending assignments. BMY3103 haven't give us any killer task, yet. (Hehe)
Me and some of the classmates were late to class this week. Due to some changes in our time table, our Inorganic Chemistry Lab had to take the time slot originally for BMY3103. And our Microbiology class had to be held a little late, and end a little late too, of course.
Dr. Wan suggested that class start at 11.15am, so that everyone can take their time walking to FBSB.
I will try to arrive in time next week!
So this week, we learn a bit of this and that about prokaryotes. Dr. Wan asked us to access Padlet that she had created. The title : "Microbial Physiology" in which Dr. Wan want us to search something; anything! about prokaryotes that may be useful for our knowledge. It can be in any form such as video, articles and journals.
Our group found something about prokaryotes that is related to their genetics. In which the researches used genetic sequencing to see the diversity of prokaryotes. It turn out that there are few types of prokaryotes that we should know other than the general bacteria and archaea that we already know.
There are bacteroidetes, firmicutes, actinobacteria, proteobacteria and other phyla.
Other groups had also found interesting informations about prokaryotes such as... Hmmm. One of the group mentioned something about the relation between prokaryotes and weight reducing.
It is basically about how the metabolism of the human body react to the normal flora in the gut. The researches are trying to understand the mechanism of the human body by observing and determining the bacteria that is present in their body.
It is actually the same concept as isolating cultures from patients with a particular disease and grow them to see what species are the microorganisms that infect the patients; and decide whether it is the cause of a disease or not. In addition to that, we have to determine the most suitable antibiotic that will prevent their growth. The same goes to the weight reducing method using prokaryotes that the researches are trying to come out with.
After everybody done presenting and explaining why their group picked the articles of their choices, Dr. Wan proceeded with every group have to pick a group of proteobacteria and present it on Monday~
In conclusion, today I learnt that other than the characteristics or prokaryotes, it is equally important to know the functions and metabolisms of prokaryotes. It is actually quite vast as their functions not only bound to medicinal value, but also to the environment, genetics and so on. I will anticipate what's more to come in this topic in order to understand more about prokaryotes.
That's all from me.
Adieu! :)
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