Metacognitive Reading Report #10
Trainee: TORRES, Zoe Marie V. Date: September 20, 2018
Science, Technology and Society
Lesson#9
Biodiversity and Human Health
1. Difficult Concepts (What concepts did you find difficult to understand?)
i. Oral Formulation of Pilocarpine for dry mouths
ii. Autoimmune diseases
iii. Drug Quinine
2. Insights (What new insights or learnings did you gain in discussion/activity?)
i. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought biodiversity is just variation of life forms. However, reading the article/understanding the lessons, I now think/realize that there are types of diversity that states in their report these are genetic biodiversity (groups of genes that is one population that are same or not same species), species biodiversity (groups of genes that is same species) and ecological biodiversity (group of species in a community of organisms)
ii. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought that late years only that they tamed the animals upon reading the article/understanding the lesson, I now think/realize that thousands year after they took care of the animal. I only thought that past years they only hunting or using animals as they vehicle.
iii. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought past years that water storage and flood control is not occur upon reading the article/understanding the lesson, I now think/realize that the they take care of the forests because forests play major role in hydrological cycle.
3. Questions (What questions would you want answers for? Or vague areas you want more explanations about?)
i. What is the treatment for air?
ii. What is the treatment for water?
iii. What are Invasive Species Carbon Storage and Light Pollution?
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