BIOL 1201: Principles of Biology 2
During this course, i had the chance of exploring the different sexual reproduction systems across different organisms between animal and plant species. I got introduced into the world of evolution, initiated by the most common theories of Charles Darwin and the Natural Selection. At first, i did not knew that organisms living in this world were surviving as much as they can. Personally, i thought that such organisms live because of the human efforts. When i got introduced into the world of genetic topics such as mutations, mitosis and meiosis, i realized that organisms can be able to live longer or forever in this world through those systems. I really got shocked. In the labs, i got a better eye on the mitosis and meiosis systems on how organisms can better thrive in this world. The labs visually made me able to know how the different strands of DNA go to each mitotic spindle inside the gene and how much of each strand gets settled to better differentiate the systems of mitosis and meiosis. Those skills made me understand a lot how this beautiful world lives with organisms.
What i also learned is that organisms can die but always reborn into new organisms from the dead remains of such organisms. Organisms do help to the environment and helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The way that such organisms die and reproduce again, made me realize that everything comes in a life cycle, allowing environmental processes to remain natural and stable as much as possible. Plant and species diversity allows to keep this world to maintain under control. Therefore, my final conclusion was that this world has no living waste, everything gets restored in a way.
ENVS 3991: Environmental Science: Sustainability
At first, i was feeling very interested in pursuing this course. After I would finish the course, I would be able to become a sustainable student with the proper equipment and knowledge on transforming a greener world. During most of the time, i used so many research skills on gathering relevant and important data from different sources to create interesting main ideas that correlates with sustainability issues. Online tools to measure the yearly total amount of footprint in tCO2 measurement from all sources were used to understand how we as humans treat the environment. Relevant practices were used to diminish and decrease the footprint impact in the environment. When i was assessing the impact of releasing ghg emissions to the environment, i realized that I was causing it by my actions that can even happen inside where you live. Small actions that you do everyday can accumulate and become something big in the world. However, ghg emissions can depend on which habitat a person resides on. Different habitats can lead to different impacts of organism’s way of survival and also ways in which natural disasters can propagate. Therefore, how and where you live are important factors that could contribute on your life to be sustainably. At the end, i would say that i legitimately enjoyed elaborating a research project with the help of The City of Kamloops and TRU. It was beautiful and interesting to have very in-depth interviews and conversations with different coordinators that explains in my case, to elaborate different ways on not gaining waste in the environment. And so at the very end of the report, I realized that in most different regions across the globe they want to achieve a circular economy, something that is exactly as what Canada needs to achieve. That made me realize that we as human beings we have a responsibility on taking care of only one whole space that we all belong: Planet Earth.