Undergraduate / What is your intended major? Biotech [5]

What is your intended major? Discuss how your interest in the subject developed and describe any experience you have had in the field - such as volunteer work, internships and employment, participation in student organizations and activities - and what you have gained from your involvement.

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i am not a good writer.. this what i come up so far. with my major i haven't had any volunteer work, internships and employment, particaption in student organization and activities.

any comments etc is fine.. i need to improve this personal statement as much as i can.. thanks to all in advance for checking it out THANK YOU =)

Curiosity drives me to details and questions come to mind of how a plant can grow to have vegetables from a flower. Seemed like a flower died and underneath the flower, it had transform to the squash. I need to understand why it does, and how it does it. Every day I looked at the planet, it grew a little bit taller and had grown tendrils which help itself to support and grow all over the fence. I noticed the leaves look a bit strange, they did not look like the way they use to be. Bugs was eating the leaves, it made the leaves look dull and odd shaped like a puzzle piece.

I asked my grandfather what we should do to save the leaves. He told me we can spray some bug spray to prevent the pests from eating it. I was wondering to myself, this will be harmful if we eat the vegetables after it has been contaminated with bug spray? He said its ok; we just need to clean it good with water later when we eat it. I felt it was not safe to eat it since it had chemicals sprayed on top of it.

A new way biotechnology has done to solve the bug problem, is to modify the bugs like Tribolium Canstaneum(red flour beetle) is a type of bug that lives in a pile of flour and it multiples in the environment found. These are deviating bugs that destroy a lot farmer's flour because of infestation of these bugs. Luckily, in recent research, scientist learned to manipulate Tribolium Castaneum to set boundaries on the genes of making its chitin exoskeleton shell. By taking out one of the beetle's enzyme, "chitin deacetylase" property, the beetle will be vulnerable to its living conditions. Because if you removed the "chitin deacetlyase" property it may not function how it use to which the bug will not survive that well in its natural conditions.

Also, there is another way, to get rid of the bugs instead of using chemicals, and manipulating bugs At the present time, genetic modifying crops can help prevent bugs from eating the plants by making the plant produce chemicals that affect the bugs but not affect humans consuming. By modifying the plants, it will not get attack by bugs. Also we can give the crops ability to have certain amount of vitamins and nutrients at a higher percent than regular crops.

My intended major is biotechnology; I want to help society and developing countries who have environment challenges that prevent them from growing certain types of crops. By doing so, the developing countries will have less starvation and able to agriculture their own foods without the bug issue and relying other countries to import the vegetables. The amount of money used to import vegetables can be used on research and development instead.

Many farmers have this issue and they use a lot of pesticides to get rid of pests that destroy a lot of crop that people can eat instead of wasting. In October 1996, World Health Organization Expert Consultation on Biotechnology and Food Safety says,"The benefits of biotechnology are many and include providing resistance to crop pests to improve production and reduce chemical pesticide usage, thereby making major improvements in both food quality and nutrition." I believe in this quote that it will be possible one day and it will benefit the whole world and be able to make more grow more food. Biotechnology is the key to unlock the challenges we have in life and the improvements for a better tomorrow.