WEEK 7

Hello readers,

So this week is the last week of us to study wtih Dr Paramewari. Haihh im too sad because along this 7 weeks i already learnt lot but life must goes on right. So for the first 2 hours lecture , Dr Parameswari discusssed about TEST 1. haha too many argument happen in the class. I just kept silent and reflected myself about the test.

To summarise my experience along this 7 week of completing the journal, I feel very happy because FINALLY I SUCCESS TO WRITE ONE BLOG ALL IN ENGLISH. i know im not good in english, when i write my blog post. I CAN REFRESH BACK THE SUBJECT. wow this is very all-time-learning. i can remember more and more. even the wifi in college is veryyyyyyyyyyy bad, i try to stayup once in a week until 2-3 in the midnight at the cafe. during that time, the wifi is too strong.

When im not understand any terms or topic, i will google or ask my friends " hey what is this?" " is this .......... " . AHAAA, other than that, i make use of youtube so much. im not a fast-learner, i need to watch video, animation and analyse picture to understand something. so after i read something form the notes, i will find videos on youtube to make better understanding.

In class with Dr Parameswari, i learn that spoon-fed in NOT EXIST AT ALL IN DEGREE LIFE. i need to go to the library and borrow some THICK BOOKS. i tell my father and he said " if your lecturer can do it before, why do you not able? " so i just .. okay I MUST STRIVE HARDER

If i can repeat the first week again, i will try to grab all the information given because all of that are very valuable.I personally feel that I started to develop my love for this course. At the beginning, it was quite difficult for me to catch up with the syllabus, but as time goes by, I realised that this course is not that hard. The way Dr Parameswari taught me really help me to understand and try to look for more information by myself. Learning is all about striving to become the better you, thus, I really appreciate Dr Parameswari effort by forcing us to do this blog after class. Dr Parameswari uses VENN DIAGRAM METHOD that make the class interesting and cheerful. I can say that I laughed a lot during Dr Parameswari class because her joke is very funny. I just can’t stop laughing. But at the same time, I did not neglect my studies. I tried to understand I tried to read the notes before class.

Well, Dr Parameswari is not going to teach me forever, until Week 7, Dr Nik came by and taught us. I hope that Dr Nik will be interesting as Dr Parameswari. Dr Parameswari will try her best to not make the class look boring. Doing a group Venn Diagram is very good actually. It boost our mind and forced us to brainstorm about the whole topic. By doing a this blog also actually helps me a lot. I learned a lot from this blog. I can just refer to the notes and understand the whole topic.

Overall, thanks to Dr Parameswarifor your efforts and everything to me along this semester. I will surely remember you as you always encourage me to love this subject. That is all from me. Thank you.

WEEK 6

HELLO READERS !

For this week, WE GET THE MARKS FROM TEST. forget it. Before that one hour class, I already did a review on the note given in putrablast. Pity Dr Parameswary because the internet is not working at all. Luckily, I already save the slide in my pendrive. Fuhh, im such a warrior on that time ((( just kidding ))) .

Today, It is about the plant growth hormone that are useful and crucial for plant. The most of the topic is about these hormones; Auxins,Cytokinins, Gibberellins, Abscisic Acid and Ethylene as well as the contribution toward the plant. Each hormone has their own role and function. It is important for the plant development and it's mechanism.

First, we learn about SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION OF PLANT. Dr Parameswari we MUST to understand this and REMEMBER THIS FOREVER !

Then we learn about hormone. After class, I surf the internet to look up more about this topic. The new informations that i got are :

1) THE BIG FIVE HORMONE : auxin, gibberellin, cytokinin, ethylene, and abscisic acid.
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WEEK 5

Hello readers !

For the fifth week, I learn about polination and embryo development of plant. It was quite... complicated but i try to digest every single terms that Dr Parameswari told. Actually, it is all about reproduction process in plant to maintain their heredity. I learnt this topic before during SPM and my foundation, but as usual i already forgot it.

So, I need to reread and understand it again after months not to exposed to this topic. Recalling my knowledge is somehow hopeles because almost all the info is being deleted from my mind. So sad to say. Pollination can be divided into two which are self-pollination and another one is cross- pollination.

This is the comparison between animal and plant development.


During learning this in the class, Dr Parameswari keep give us chance to cooperate in group to do the Venn diagram.. I REALLY LOVE THIS PART BECAUSE THE MOMENT WE WENT IN FRONT WAS LIKE IN THE SHOPPING MARKET. I think It really helped me to understand lot. Thanks to Dr Parameswari, the lecture is interesting. But, I still not remember all the information, i just understand it. I will try my best to memorise it. Another point is embrogenesis. It is very interesting topic which convey the progress plant development.

WEEK 4

Hello readers !

This week I learned about cell cycle and pollination of plants! I DONT REALLY LIKE TO STUDY IT BEFORE because i cant see the process clearly contrast to animals and humans.Do you know what is cell cycle? Cell cycle is an ordered set of events, resulting in cell growth and cell division into two daughter cell.

At the end of this topic, I can differentiate the stages of cell cycle, apply it to plant growth and development, define totipotency and its types and relate cell cycle mechanism with plant totipotency. This is not the first time i heard about totipotency because I already learnt about it during foundation.

Cell cycle is one of my favorite topic which is the main function of this cell cycle is to replace lost or damaged cells and allow organism to grow.

Cell cycle can be divided into 4 phase which is the interphase that consist of G1 followed by S phase and G2 and M phase and cytokinesis. meanwhile M phase divided by two types which is mitosis and meiosis. M phase also can be divided into 4 stages prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.

Totipotency is the ability of a single cell to divide and produced all of the differentiated cells in organism.

the scl activity that we had done in our lecture which is very interesting and a little bit difficult for us that we need to brainstorming together. THE VENN DIAGRAM REALLY HELPFUL ! i love the "shopping market" scene when all of us ran forward to write the answer on the whiteboard. It is quite funny.

The pollination is the transfer of the pollen to the part of the seed plant containing the ovule.
pollination also include two type of embryogenesis which is zygotic embryogenesis and somatic embryogenesis.

The activities that we had done in this lecture is very simple and easy for me to understand more about the cell cycle, totipotency and pollination. before this, i never heard anything about totipotency. but when i learned about it, it gets more interesting and i can gain more knowledge about plant development.

On Thursday which is 1 hour class, Dr. Parameswari instruct us to answer the quiz in PutraBlast. WOWWWWWWWWWWWW POP QUIZ !!! luckily , i got 16/20 questions correct which are 80%. YEAY im so happy. From this quiz, i concluded that we must use the correct and specific term ((( must really care about the spelling ) . I mispelling LYSOGENY as LYSOGENIC . Then i got wrong ( so frustated ).

I felt very happy with my progression nowadays. Thats all from me ! See you next week :)

WEEK 3

Hello readers !

During third week, I learnt about cell theory, prokaryotic cell, virus, viroid and prion. This topic is very familiar to me because of my foundation background and help me recalling and installing my memory about basic because I already forget everything . hehehe . The Cell Theory is one of the basic principles of biology.

((((( Credit for the formulation of this theory is given to German scientists Theodor Schwann, Matthias Schleiden, and Rudolph Virchow.)))

The Cell Theory states:
1)All living organisms are composed of cells. They may be unicellular or multicellular.
2)The cell is the basic unit of life.
3)Cells arise from pre-existing cells. Cell divided by two Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell.

I also learnt about the bacterial shape.

Another things that I learnt is about virus, viroid and prion. Virus is something unique that being held between living and non-living thing. It require host cell to show the living thing properties and I learnt about the properties of virus, classification of virus and how the reproduce.

These picture are the example for virus (HIV virus and Bacteriophage). They consist of 2 major part which are protein coat and heredity material (either DNA or RNA). Below, is the life cycle for virus. Without the host, they can't show the virulency. To maintain their existence, they undergo lysogeny and lytic cycle. For lysogeny, they remain dormant until suitable condition before the lytic occur.

Viroid is a smallest infectious pathogens known, consisting solely of short strands of circular, single-stranded RNA without protein coats. Viroid is a plant virus.

The potato is one of the example of viroid infection. Another thing I learnt is prion. Prion is infectious protein that effect nervous system. Prion causes mad cow disease, kuru, scrapie. It is dangerous.

The cow that being infected by Prion. Mad cow disease (BSE).

Another example for prion infection- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. For this week topic is really broad. What I learnt this week is just basic. I need to read a lot about this topic from different sources. In opinion, I love this week topic because I can get many new knowledge. Dr Parameswari always share with us some interesting story. Before this, my mind only focused on VIRUS ONLY, TO BE HONEST, I DONT EVEN KNOW ABOUT VIROID AND PRION. now , i already know. Thanks to this subject for providing me the info.

WEEK 2

Hello readers,

So for the second entry, I would like to share my second week in this BSM 3101 class . Before I've been exposed to the contents of history and origin outline, I'm thinking "oh no, it must be a boring class because we're going to learn about history and kind of thing again" No, I would say that i'm absolutely wrong. In Dr Parameswari class, we had so much fun because we learn theory about cells and how it evolve and within same time we learnt and gained knowledge.

For my second week in learning BSM 3001, I learnt about History of life. This topic conveys about the condition of earth for billions years age. That is true that our beloved Earth is extremely old. I feel amazed. The Evolution theory is being applied in this topic. What I have learnt here in this topic is Evolution is Real. The Earth was the first to start the evolution form anoxic to oxic ! The evolution of Earth is slow but continuosly until now. What I learnt in this topic the progress of earth evolution from billions years ago. The scientist pictured condition Earth in 4 billion years ago is chaos and inhabit place. There is no oxygen and no life at all during that time. The condition of earth is very unstable with a lot of natural uncontrollable disasters occur frequently.

The picture is used to pictured the condition of Earth in early age. Very unstable and not suitable to live. In this second week's topic, I learnt about how the 'life' is being created. Life is begin with a simple inorganic molecules in the atmosphere resulted from the natural disasters occured.

The picture shows the evolution of atmosphere and the begining in how the life is created. From inorganic molecules to oranic molecules and becomes more complex and keep increasing the complexity till the life is created.

The timeline of early organisms start to exist. For this evolution,in how the organic molecules formed there is two theory which is 1) Comet theory and 2) Prebiotic broth hypothesis theory. The comet theory stated that the first organic molecule come from outer space. But this theory have no prove.

The prebiotic broth hypothesis evidence which conducted by Miller and Urey. I nearly forgot to mention another thing that I learnt in week 2 that related to week 1 topic which is "Selection in Action". It is a lecture video all about Evolution Theory.

We have used the technology such as Youtube to view 2 video and been exposed to many kind of education's ways of learning such as mind map. We also get COMPLICATED ASSIGNMENT . Haha , we need to create cartoon on how the evolution. So, me and my fellow group members draw Lithipodius Nulla, a simple creature at the sandy-like environment. Im not a good drawer and I take part on creating storyline and make the script for the character. I also blod the drawing and colour the cartoon. I AM VERY PROUD BECAUSE THIS IS MY FIRST EXPERIENCE TO FINISH THE CARTOON . HAHAHAHA.

So, one of the interesting fact in this week lecture is to know how old scientest classify organisms. Furthermore, we also got to know many kinds of species that we are not familiar with. Even we have heard their name before, but we did not know the special characteristics of the them.

I love to know facts and like to discover things that caught my attention and make me curious to know. After class, I open the Youtube to get some extra information about evolution. Many facts about origin have been exposed in the second week of lecture. I hope, I can learn the next topic with more interesting facts beside only learn based on the notes. I think, that's all for my second entry. Thanks for reading!

WEEK 1

Hello readers !

Today is my post on this blog. This blog is officially a reflective journal for me along Cellular And Developmental Biology ( BSM 3101 ) subject . Our lecturer for first for first 7 weeks is PM Dr. Parameswari Namasivayam.

Reflecting on Cellular and Developmental Biology as a subject and connecting it to the things i have learn in class and out side the class makes the understanding of world of science looks simple. This subject has made me realized that there is a reason, behind every creation in this Earth from ancient time till now.

Cellular and Development Biology is an important subject in my future career as a immunologist because taking the class has given me a broad knowledge on what, how, and when things happens in the basics. So far the chapters we have learned makes me conclude that Cellular and Development Biology is the basic of all the science courses and its understanding is very crucial in succeeding in any field of science especially related to molecular biology. Currently i can link Cellular and Developmental Biology to Microbiology and Chemistry and i am very positive that every single thing i learn and do in this class is relevant to my future career goals.

Even though this class has all the learning styles, I learn best in listening and explaining things in my own words.The two most important things i have learn so far is the introductory which made me understand the nature and significance of Cellular and Developmental Biologyy as a field of study. The first made me realized why i am taking this class and what to expect from the class, with genetics, its kind of amazing linking it to God's creation. How this tiny organisms produces, their genes, genomes and etc is interesting to learn in details about them.

My confusing or biggest challenge in this class is the fact that i already forgot what i already learn on my foundation studies. Im so lucky because i managed to refer to my own reference book ( Mader Biology 12th Edition ). It takes time to understand certain words and digest things in class because of different ways of pronunciations or accent. Diverting from the holiday mood has not been easy but my seriousness in class and trust in God has always kept me excelling and and will continue to do my best by reading more and following instructions and hopeful i will excel more .

So this is what I learnt from the class :

The picture above is Charles Darwin (Charles Robert Darwin). He is an English naturalist and also a geologist who is the one who gave out the 'Evolution Theory'.

One of the example of Darwin's Evolution theory. The theory that human is originally arise from monkey/ ape. This picture came across my mind when my lecturer said 'Evolution'. What a ridiculous theory it is ((( according to me )) But, in this course, I open my mind widely . So yeah, just learn !