• Question: WHAT IS YOUR FAVIROTE KIND OF SCIENCE

    Asked by BIG LUGS to Ellen, Elliot, Hazel, Rupesh, Thomas on 11 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by MRmanGuy, slug, lolly pop, millerboy2002, 989bsmf22.
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      Elliot Jokl answered on 11 Jun 2016:

      That’s a good question!

      I love Biology. Living things are very, very complicated and the challenge of figuring out how they work is very interesting to me.

      However, I think I am most interested in what happens when things go wrong in your body. Learning about how diseases work can help us figure out ways of making people with diseases more healthy, and maybe even cure them.

      The types of disease I particularly like are genetic diseases, which is when there is a mutation in a person’s DNA. The DNA code is BILLIONS of letters long, and sometimes, just changing one or two of these letters can be enough to cause a disease. This is because the DNA is like an instruction manual, and changing the letters can mean that an important molecule doesn’t get made properly, or is not made at all. If this molecule had an important job to do, this can lead to problems which cause disease.

      Little DNA mistakes can have big consequences, and we can learn a lot about what important molecules do when we look into these diseases.

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      Thomas Biggans answered on 11 Jun 2016:

      Physics,

      The laws of physics can be used to describe anything in the universe (and possibly other universes) so with physics you can understand how anything works. This makes the laws a bit vague when you don’t have a specific example to apply them to but that’s what a physicist does and in my case I apply physics to medicine.

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      Hazel Garvie-Cook answered on 15 Jun 2016:

      My favourite kind of science is Physics. By learning Physics, you learn how to approach problems and solve them. So it’s really useful!

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