1. Describe your feelings about or response to the interview.
I really liked our interview for many reasons. Dr. Fisher was very nice and willing to help us and the things he had to say were very interesting and agreeable; however, a few of the things he talked about were above my comprehension level.
2. What changes occurred for you as a result of your interview?
I often times don't think about how diseases and other harmful factors affect more than just humans and he made me really thing about how anthrax affects animals besides ourselves in different ways.
3. Did anything about the interview disturb you?
Diseases and other harmful factors always disturb me when they are gone into in detail because of how easy it is for exposure to happen and infections to occur; however, it is just a fact of life that I obviously accept.
4. Describe the connections you found between the interview and your research & classwork.
Dr. Fisher went into a question about how evolution affects anthrax and other bacteria and viruses and how they can evolve to no longer be affected by vaccines or medicines intended to cure the affected organism so that they no longer are effective against the harmful factor. He also went into how anthrax can affect two similar organisms in two different ways depending on their genetic make-up and these are all things we have gone over in class and done research for this project on.
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ReplyDeleteThank you for your reflections; I'm glad you were able to make such strong connections between anthrax and evolution. However, Joe will need to post an interview before he can get even partial credit for this portion of the project. Claire and Misty, 30 out of 30.
-Dr. Walker