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Post 8: A subject you enjoyed studying

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 Hello everyone, I hope you enjoy this last post that is made with a lot of love.  Today I will write about one of may favorite subjects in high school, biology. However, it wasn't always like that, I remember when I was in first grade it was hard for me to understand the subject and I didn't get along very well with the biological systems, however my teacher always had faith in me and helped me a lot.  Then, came the year when we saw some things about genetics and Mendel's laws and I learned so much, it was like discovering a new world and in that moment I said "OMG I want to dedicate myself to that" and the magic began, I started to be more and more interested in the area, but biology is so diverse that I didn't know what area to choose, in the middle of fourth grade I liked careers like Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, forest engineering, etc, but finally I stayed with biochemistry hahaha and here I am, surviving.  I remember with great affection my...

Post 7: An expert/person in your field that you admire

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 Hello everyone, today I will writte about an expert/person in my field that I admire. In general, I admire all the women in this picture, especially Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin, because their stories and contributions have been a great  influence for me,  to want to dedicate myself to science. Marie Curie has been one of the most influential  scientists in the world, winner of two  Nobel Prizes for her  discovery of radium and polonium. She also worked with  radioactivity, and her studies have been very important to treat cancer,  and she also contributed to saving lives during the First World War thanks to her  invention of mobile X-rays. On the other hand,  Rosalind Franklin made one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, beacause her work with X-rays helped her to visualize  that DNA was composed of a double strand, however, she was  forgotten in her time and she had a very short life so other  sc...