Reality: Journal Log No. 1: A Trip To Biology

Journal Log no.
1:
A trip to Biology
Name: Bicol, Jem Nathaniel F. Bicol
Year and Section: 12 – St. Ignatius of Laconi
Date: 14/09/2020
Teacher: Mr. Christian Nino E. Sasa
Score: /25
REALITY
Studying Biology is important since it helps us to understand how cells and organisms
work. It involves the study of life and it is very important as it tells us about the natural
world. Biology tells us about our body, helping us to develop cures and treatments for
many diseases. It also tells us about the bodies of other animals and it can provide clinical
treatment for farm animals and also pets.
Biology also tells us about plants and how they can be beneficial to human life. Biology
gives us a method to classify animals and help us understand animals. It also tells us do's
and don’ts for our planet. It gives us a thorough picture of human body and the organisms
inside us, also about the metabolism and other processes inside the human body. Biology
also tells us about the behavioral acts of humans and animals.
Biology as a science helps human life in many ways. It helps in increasing production of
food, combating diseases and also aids in protecting and conserving our environment.
The advances in the field of biology have resulted in high standard of living in the field of
food and health. Production of plants has been increased by improving the varieties and
development of high-yield and diseases resistant varieties of plants and animals that are
used as food.
The study of biology has helped humans to understand the similarities between all forms
of life. For example, the genetic code that helps to construct all living organisms is very
similar in all life forms. The genetic material is stored in the form of DNA for all plants,
animals, bacteria and fungi. By studying the DNA of all these different life forms,
biologists have determined that all living creatures are related to each other.
Biology has also helped doctors learn how to keep people healthy and fight off disease.
Biologists have learned that things called pathogens, which are themselves other living
entities, cause diseases. By understanding how these dangerous organisms work,
scientists can fight them off. Because of biology, many people have lived long lives as
they have been able to avoid diseases.
Biology also studies the origin of diseases and plagues, such as infections, pathologies of
animals and damage to plants and trees. Biology encompasses the study of the functions
of living beings, enhancement of useful species, factors that cause illnesses, discovery
and production of medicines and sustainable use of natural resources. Through
biotechnology, biologists find efficient ways to produce food and other supplies for
people. They investigate the processes involved in producing various nutritional
substances.
REFLECTION
I believe that any thing a person studies should be interesting. In that sense, biology isn’t
special; my first science love was astronomy. For practical reasons, I shifted to chemistry,
then to biology. Biology grabbed me forever when I studied population genetics and
evolution. For me, the depth of evolution as a concept is like the way space and time make
the universe a whole thing. The perspective of evolution over time links a tremendous
array of disparate facts and processes.
The basic idea that we are the current sum of a process involving just a few molecular
interactions 4 billion years ago is mind boggling. How could any curious mind resist this
beautiful mystery in which we are seeped?. This simple, observable process of evolving
biological systems perfectly unifies basic matter and energy with DNA composition and
structure, complex molecular interactions, cellular architecture, multicellular organisms
that so exceed single cells it seems laughable they are the same. Yet they are. In ever
greater steps, the wonders of biological processes have generated sentient awareness of
existence.
Biology and evolution give us a sensible context to examine ourselves, phyisiologicaly,

cognitively, emotionally, socially—pretty much everything human—as well as the biology
and larger environment we are part of. Not only that, but a grasp of evolutionary principles
helps us understand how complex systems in general can be created and sustained, or
destroyed.
Aside from all the deeper, profound importance of biology, the daily significance of
biological study is shown in medicine, agriculture, ecology, and psychology. Even
philosophy, religion, advertising, art, fashion and politics.
Biology is an important area of study as it reveals the facts and has taken us where we are
today. All the other fields of study are dependent on the facts that are revealed by the
studies that are carried out in field of biology.
RESPONSE
Biology is absolutely fascinating to me because it is the study of Life. Each day it amazes me that we
are conscience beings able to observe and ponder the different forms of life on Earth, and wonder if
there are other living beings in the infinite expanse of the universe, postulate the possible existence of
a multiverse, and the creation of artificial intelligence. Being able to just conceive and think about
ideas like this, the incredible complexity and ability of our brains to form thoughts and concepts like
these is amazingly remarkable. If you study Biology, and dive in deep into cell structures to how our
DNA is our universal blueprint for the construction of organic Life, you will be just as amazed on
how all these things work in concert with each other, and that we are able to walk, breathe, and
think. Life is a magnificent thing, and to think about this will make you thankful for each day that
we exist.
Biology is a story. It’s the story of what makes planet Earth, as far as we know so far,
unique. It’s the story of where life began, and the study of where we will end up as
individuals, but also as a species. It takes a seemingly hackneyed phrase like, “we’re all
connected” and quantifies it. There is something transcendentally uplifting about the
revelation that we share a common ancestor with a giant sequoia or a colony of ants.
There’s a humbling comfort in knowing that life on earth is 3.8 billion years old and the
human race a mere 200,000. We’re a small part of a beautiful whole.
I used to be religious and I believed that in some sense life was eternal, that after we died
some part of us lived on for all of eternity. The science of biology tells us a different story.
Biology tells us that what we’re experiencing, our unique, subjective perspective on the
universe, is finite, unlikely and precious. Far from diminishing the value of life, it seems to
increase it, bringing a fleeting and desperate importance to each little experience we take
for granted as we hurtle toward a timely end.
Without biology, the study of why we’re here and how we perceive the world around us, all
of the chemistry, physics and math that governs the universe, happens in a void. In that
way, life, gives the the rest of science an audience. In that way Biology is both the
spectator and the show. It makes the universe a less lonely place.

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