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Till the next time mates!

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I always have liked blogging, I don't know If you remember but I told you about ''Tumblr'' I do have a blog on that web page, it is more to share things that you like, for instance, photos or phrases that other people have shared in their blogs, but you can still share your own stuff. The experience in here was quite cool, I never imagined a class in this way so, in my opinion, it was quite interesting. Sometimes it was a wee bit difficult You know?  Have to write something in a language that you are not completely used to... Very fun though.  typing. In general, the topics were right... some of then more entertaining than others. The ones that I enjoyed the most typing were '' Why did I choose my career?'', ''Music. The BEST thing in life'' and ''Photography!'' Maybe because I was more used to talk about those things than the others... Anyways I had fun doing all the blogs. Music and books. I feel tha...

PCR.

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Hello everyone, Today I'm going to talk about a very important technique 'Polymerase Chain reaction' or PCR, it is used to amplify a copy of a segment of DNA in order to generate millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence. It was developed in 1963 by Kary Mullis. Kary Mullis. It has a huge importance in my career because this technique allows you to do research in many fields related to genes and ADN. For instance, some of its applications are gene cloning and manipulation, gene mutagenesis, construction of DNA-based phylogenies, diagnosis and monitoring of hereditary diseases. As you see you can work with this technique doing research on evolution, diseases, biotechnology etc. I chose this technique because I have always loved proteins, enzymes and all related to DNA; and this technique is based on a very important enzyme, The ''Polymerase''; the technique consists of a series of repeated temperature changes, first the temperatur...

THIS TERM IS ABOUT TO END! and I tell you about the subject that I like the most

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Titration. My favorite subject this term is Chemical Laboratory Techniques. This subject is composed of two modules, a normal class of theory and then practicing class. Usually a week before of going to the laboratory to have the practical class you have a previous class where they teach you the theory, you take notes about the process and they explain to you how you suppose to do them in the laboratory. Then, one week later you go to the laboratory to do those differents process that you have learned to do, for example, a distillation, dilution or a t itration etc... Distillation. I like being in the laboratory, get to practice or to do the process that I learned in the theoretical classes is an opportunity that I did not have in high school, so it's new and so interesting to me. Although sometimes it can be stressful and so complicated... sometimes you can get frustrated because you forgot to do something, or things just don't go well, ...