Introductory Letter
Dear Jasmine,
Before 9th grade I had no real interests in any school subject. I was drawn to Biology during high school because I took part in the Medical and Health Specialties program offered during my four years, and this then stemmed my interest for the sciences. I am still unsure about my future career choices and path, but I am currently interested in the ecological sciences. I enjoy learning about animals and our impact on them, human origins and our relationships with other organisms, and how communities overall work together to develop the world that we currently live in. I am always in awe seeing pictures and videos of intricate plants and highly skilled animals, and I want to know more about them and how and why they came to be.
During this course, I want to develop a better understanding of how organisms’ function, and I will accomplish this by learning how different cells cooperate and impact different organism’s lives. I am interested to learn about how drug resistance develops in cells causing antibiotic resistance. I know that it happens through evolutionary processes and that it occurs quickly because of a cell’s lifespan, but I want to know the process of it and what regulates the activity.
Learning about how antibiotic resistance occurs relates to cell function and how it responds to stimuli in the environment. I believe that it will tie in topics such as cell communication, mutation, and replication.
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