• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    It’s the classic:

    “It’s grade school biology!”

    “Okay, but when you get to middle school…”

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          It’s collegiate biology.

          Ah, someone failed biology in college.

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            As someone who has experienced Post graduate biology, at that point explaining some things does reach the level of “trust me bro” when speaking to people that have no baseline biology knowledge.

            Do you want a series of 1 hour lectures and a few thousand pages of reading material? No? Then you just need to trust the experts.

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              I’ll settle for some unlikely and interesting bits out of context, such as the existence of single-cell dogs.

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                  I’m not a biologist myself, so this explanation might be full of errors, but the gist of it is:

                  A dog got cancer. Cancer tissue is a part of your body with the same genetic information, just growing uncontrollably, right? Well, one of the cancer cells got separated and somehow learnt to survive on its own, reproducing asexually and started a lineage of a new single-cell organism that still exists to this day.

                  This single-cell organism has the same DNA as the dog. Genetically speaking it is a dog.

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                    Cancer tissue is a part of your body with the same genetic information, just growing uncontrollably, right?

                    I have no idea. Don’t ask me to verify this stuff!

                    one of the cancer cells got separated and somehow learnt to survive on its own, reproducing asexually and started a lineage of a new single-cell organism that still exists to this day.

                    This single-cell organism has the same DNA as the dog. Genetically speaking it is a dog.

                    I regret asking!

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              5 days ago

              Most people don’t?

              I mean why would anyone not studying biology (or related fields) have to take biology in college? Or is that a US-American thing?

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                It’s a common general education requirement for college in the US, yeah. Biology, physics, psychology, economics, English/writing, math, etc. are often all required, or at least a selection of most of the discipline-intro-level courses is.

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                  Huh, that’s weird. Isn’t highschool sufficient for general education?

                  Thinking about it, it might not be. I’ve just checked and at least in Germany a US highschool diploma (including passing tests like SAT or ACT flawlessly) doesn’t (generally) qualify you for entering university here. That is, you are literally prohibited by law from enrolling.

                  I’m genuinely glad this isn’t part of university education here. I mean, I’m attending lectures because I have interest in a certain subject - not because I want even more general education after finishing secondary education.

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                    Well another major wrench in the system is that because education is largely regulated by the states rather than the federal government, they can have very wide degrees of variance between education quality, oversight, and quantity of subjects studied.

                    This can be good (for instance, as a Californian, I was given the opportunity to take a 4 year engineering course series in high school that helped propel me into studying Electrical Engineering right now in college), but can also be bad due to negligence by the state to maintain and audit schools, along with issues of content erasure or censorship (Texas and Florida being the most blatant examples).

                    Additionally, this can lead to the “Name school prestige” problem where employers largely focus on students who graduated from elite colleges or universities with higher barriers of entry (Money) and reputable quality, while neglecting students who may have undergone the same rigorous studies at a school that’s not as well known. (With students only holding a High School diploma left in the dust)