Week 1

A new life start. Actually I still cannot accept the fact that I’m now at university. Many thing have changed. I have to adapt a new environment of university life. But what I can do now… Life must go on. My life as a university student begins now.

So Assoc. Prof. Dr Parameswari Namasivayam is my lecturer for the subject Cellular And Developmental Biology (BSM3001). We called her Dr Parames. Actually I still confused with other lecturer that we must call him/her as Prof and Dr. I’m afraid that I made mistake to call Dr Parames as Dr not Prof. Since all my classmate call  her Dr, I’m just follow them.  

Back to our topic, first week in the class is only learn introduction. Before Dr Parames start the lecture, she brief to us about how the marks given and when the test will be held. The first topic that we learn is Evolution and Charles Darwin.  I already got a homework from Dr Parames on the first day class which is watch the video. That video was about 1 hour duration. I never get homework to watch the video. I tried my best to watch that video because internet connection in my college was really bad. I only can watch it for a few minutes and it stopped because of lost connection. What a sad day. I have to woke up in the very early morning and had to buy data in order to watch this video which the title Endless Forms Most Beautiful. Actually after watch this video I still cannot understand about what video it is. I had to review many times and of course it takes more time. 

The internet was not really good actually but at least better than using wifi because the problem is line not the wifi. I’m not blame the Dr Parames for giving us this task. Actually I’m happy to learn more about evolution topic because when I was in matriculation I’m not quite understand about this topic and found that this topic was really boring because I don’t know the history of evolution actually. But now not anymore. The video actually about the story of Charles Darwin how he started the five year voyage and what he had obtained during his voyage. Along this video, Dr Parames give us some activities in putrablast to answer based on that video. Then, Dr Parames give us another task which also watch the video which has same duration with video 1. For sure I faced the same problem like watching the first video. The title is Natural Selection vs Artificial Selection. After that, Dr Parames give us  some activities based on video 2 and a quiz to answer  based on video 1 and video 2. If you not watch both of the video you can’t answer that question because it all were related.

Did you know what is evolution? In this topic, we need to learn about historical development of the theory evolution. After I learnt this topic, now I know that ideas on evolution prior to Darwin by Aristotle, Jean Baptiste Lamarck with his theory called Lamarck’s Theory and Charles Lyell before Charles Darwin can prove the truth of evolution and yet became Father of Evolution. Darwin’s evolutionary theory was natural selection. Natural selection was based on 4 main principle which is variation, overproduction, adaptation and descent with modification.

I think that’s all we have learnt . Basically I learnt more about  this topic and it make me can’t wait for the next lecture. Life is not easy actually and we should try adapt and learnt a new thing in our life to make it better and try to overcome the challenge we faced like Charles Darwin.