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TAMAYO AYALA VALERIA
	OLGUIN LORENA AIME
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IMPORTANCE OF THE DAILY
Introducción
We live our lives day by day surrounded by thousands of things, and we don't really look into or care about them. Just to mention a few, we have the world, technology, and even ourselves. In this work we’ve gathered some and we are going to go deep into them to show the importance of the daily. 
Development
We are gonna start of with something that is familiar to us, the human body. We all are different, we came in different shapes and tones. And as for almost everything in this world, there is a reason behind it, and that is our DNA.
Topic 11. Genetics Revolution
Genetic data (our genes) is the one that makes us different and the one that makes us inherit our parents features. According to David Finegold (2019) we, humans, have about 20,000 to 23,000 genes. 
As we know, with time technology has evolved and now we can modificate our genes. This process is called genetic modification. 
Genetic modification is the process of altering the genetic molecules of an organism. This is done indirectly by controlled, or selective, breeding of plants and animals and even humans.
It consists of an artificial gathering of DNA molecules with the purpose of isolating genes or DNA fragments, cloning them and introducing them into another genome for expression. Can be described as the formation of new gene combinations, when new genes are introduced into plants or animals, the resulting organisms are called transgenic, and the introduced genes are transgenes.
A genetic modification has both benefits and risk, so in this paper we will list some of them.
Benefits: 
· They benefit our world in important ways such as modifying crops to have higher nutritional content, to be drought resistant, and have higher harvest yield. 
· They can help to solve hunger issues in developing countries by increasing yields and nutritional values. 
· By extracting genes from cells and adding them to other cells, you have the ability to create properties that have never been seen before 
· Decrease in losses caused by various biotic and abiotic stresses 
· Reduced costs for food for or drug production 
· Reduced need for pesticides 
· That the genes of the babies improve, and have less risk of being born with some disease 
 
Risks:
· Studies have shown that feeding GMO crops to pigs has led to stomach ulcers, lesions in the stomach, reproductive disorders, and changes in their livers and kidneys. 
· It can transfer allergens from one food to another, so it can cause allergic reactions to people who ate them thinking they were are safe.
· Conflicts with many moral and ethical problems
· In some countries like Spain it is punishable by law
· Cáncer 
· Can cause death
Genetics have the ability to change nature’s natural state, which as proven before, it could have both benefits and risks. Another thing we should be careful about is environment conservation. We live in a beautiful world full of amazing things to enjoy and discover.
It is easy to take care of it, yet most people don't know how. That’s why we will now explain a very important topic: how our diets affect ecosystem conservation. 
Topic 12. Ecosystem Conservation
 
New research have confirmed our diets affect climate change and are working hard in ways to can reduce it. However, we need to know how exactly our diets impact climate change to come up with a solution. 
Project Drawdown director, Jonathan Foley announced that about 30 percent of climate change today is created due to agriculture and factory farming. 
Scientists have proven that about 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions are caused by animal agriculture, while 51 percent of them are due to livestock byproducts. Especially meat and dairy are extremely bad for the climate since cow digestion produces methane (CH4) which is a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. It also produces nitrous oxide (N20) and carbon dioxide (CO2) as well. However, the problems of eating meat don’t end here: livestock is also responsible for 80% of global reforestation and it uses 70% of the world’s available freshwater. 
The way we can minimize these numbers is by eliminating animal products or ideally, removing it totally from our diets. Oxford University stated in a report (2016) ‘’if everyone went vegan, then greenhouse gas emissions would drop 70% by 2050’. Still, scientists are looking for other answers, since some say that going vegan may not always be the best option. 
According to a marketing study conducted in Germany, sales of vegan and vegetarian foods have been increasing by 30% every year since 2008, however this products often come packaged in layers of plastic, they are shipped from other countries or they contain addictive chemicals. These also leave big ecological footprints, even bigger than eating local meat. 
So we concluded on this by saying that we always need to check where does our food comes from, is it local or shipped? 
Another big problem is food waste. A report from the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization found that if food waste were a country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases worldwide. ‘’One of the reasons why food waste happens is because of confusion over food labels’’, pointed an article from The Natural Resources Defense Council (2018). They also said that more than 90% of Americans waste perfectly edible food. 
The University of California recommends people to inform themselves better on food labels, store intelligently and meal plan every day so no food goes to waste. 
To finalize the points we thought were the most important, we should talk about junk food. Junk food also leaves a big carbon footprint for several reasons, being packaging the most important. Without recycling services, the plastic used for storing junk food produces large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. Even with recycling services, the process of making packaging itself requires a lot of natural resources. 
Sugar addition makes this problem even more difficult to deal with since consumers keep buying junk food, leading to consumerism. There are millions of junk food factories globally that contribute to climate change with all their waste, water, electricity and land use. 
‘’ We’re not saying your diet should be so pure that you never eat sugar’’ Saron Palmer, a registered dietitian and plant-based nutrition and sustainability expert says, ‘’but we can definitely make a difference with reducing junk food and sugary drinks consumption overall’’
To gather and summarize all the possible solutions, we will stand saying that our hypothesis is that to help reduce climate change we should eat less meat and dairy (maybe once or twice in a week) or completely remove it; check the origins of our food, inform ourselves better on food labels, store intelligently, meal plan every day and reduce junk food consumption. This lifestyle (and the pure ethical values of stopping slaughter and suffering) will help greatly to stabilize the environment. 
With all sorts of changes in both nature and in our bodies, changes in medicine are almost inevitable. 
Topic 13. Medical Advances
Medicine plays a super important role in our daily lives, and we can prove this by looking back at the past, when there weren't a lot of improvements in technology. For example, in the past, life expectancy was shorter, there was less population and there were also more diseases.
Our developments are really important because if we didn't have such advances, to mention a few ( penicillin, vaccines and surgeries) the world would be complex. There would be more virus and bacteria-related deaths, with higher risk of pandemics. And people wouldn’t be able to combat diseases. Without surgeries, people who had accidents (car accidents, attempt of suicide, etc) would die immediately, also people with cancer and asphama. Pregnant woman would dealwith more pain and they could die if not treated properly. Also plastic surgery wouldn't exist.
Thankfully, today’s medicine is capable of a lot of things. It can recover a person, reduce a person’s pain, prevent diseases. It can modificate and inseminate our genetics, keep a person in coma after an accident. It gives people hope, can reduce a patient pain. Organ donation and treatment to ill people is possible, among many others.
The medical research made possible animal testing, genetic research, chemical investigation, bacteria and virus investigation, research of healing plants, anatomic research, diagnostic analysis, etc
As we said, with time the medicine improved in all areas and now we also have great advances in neuromedicine. And we are sure it won't stop growing soon. We believe that in the future we will prevent mental or genetic diseases such as the lack of chromosomes in fetus, and fetuses will be able to be treated from the womb. It will allow a more precise tumor resection through neuronavigation. It will be able to immediately detect post operative or intraoperative complications.
With improvement, there we will face a lot of problems. We feel like in the future the world will always encounter new neurotic diseases and problems, so future scientist will have to deal with that. Maybe people will deal with more stress and madness depending on the living situations of the future. We also believe neurological and biological modified human weapons that doesn't hurt and mental chips in our brains would be possible.
Neuromedicine is a very important area of investigation, but it can also be very dangerous since it works with our brains. Also the brain is something we will never get to know totally.
Talking about the brain, there is an important thing we can't left behind, and that is, electric energy, which is the type of energy we can find in our brains. 
 Topic 14. Telecommunications
Electric energy is the one charges the battery of our devices and makes our lamps light. It originates from the difference in electrical potential between two specific points, when they are contacted by an electrical transmitter.
It comes from a power line or from an electrical network, which we access through plugs or outlets. This network is managed, generated and distributed by the companies that provide said service.
It should be noted that there is electrical energy in nature.
Here’s a list of things we can do with electric energy:
· Nuclear energy.
· Renewable energy
· Solar energy exchange platforms that extend clean energy in remote areas such as SOL-Share, based in Bangladesh.
· Waste heat recovery systems that recycle industrial by-products and thus become a carbon-free energy source. This is the case of Seramic from the United Arab Emirates.
· A type of coal made from biomass that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It is already used in Agri-Tech Producers coal-fired power plants in the USA.
· "Green" briquettes made from biomass that reduce deforestation and dependence on dirty charcoal such as that created by Kenyan environmental management company Kayole.
· A water source in the city that saves water and avoids the use of millions of plastic bottles. That at the proposal of the ProAcqua Group.
· Eco-friendly paints that protect surfaces and improve energy efficiencies, such as zero-VOC.
Electric energy is a service that we is normally carried out in a power plant, or in specialized devices.
Power plants: They produce electricity from the spinning of turbines pushed by steam of heated water, for example, by coal or hydrocarbon combustions or by nuclear reactions.
Renewable resources: There are also power plants that take advantage of waterfalls (hydroelectric), or strong winds (wind) to mobilize their turbines and generate electricity. In addition, solar installations, solar energy into electrical energy through a system of panels that receive radiation directly.
Thanks to electrical energy, we can use a large number of devices and machinery that make life much easier. It is also important since we depend on all the energy for the time in which we live.
But a bad use of them is catastrophic for the planet, since the excess of energy consumption means making the companies produced more, burn more non-renewable resources, which pollute the air and unleash greenhouse gases, and consequently the planet suffer from overheating that can present natural disasters.
For this reason, we must promote the saving of natural resources and request the reduction of the pollution emitted in the energy production process. And obviously, doing our part taking care of its use.
It is important and useful in a wide range of areas, such as:
· Factories: it is used to move motors, to obtain heat and cold, for surface treatment processes using electrolysis, etc.
· Transportation: Much of public transportation uses electrical energy.
· Agriculture: Especially for irrigation engines, used to lift water from aquifers, and for other mechanical uses.
· Households: it is used in homes for thermal uses (heating, air conditioning, hot water and kitchen), also for lighting and household appliances.
· Urban lighting: allows our cities to be more and better illuminated than ever before.
· Ignition of cars: It operates based on the burning of fuel (gasoline), but to initiate that precisely controlled reaction of a spark that produces the electrical energy contained in the accumulator (battery).
· Our own body: The human body also works with specific and controlled doses of electricity. Between neurons, for example, there are electrical exchanges; The muscles are operated on the basis of controlled discharges that activate the elastic cells.
· Defibrillators in hospitals: In hospitals, a device called a defibrillator is used, which by means of controlled electric shocks allows trying to start the new arrested heart.
Evidence 2
For evidence two, we did a research in our school to test our tesis, which was ‘’we believe TecMilenio students would like to have implemented a section of freshwater and ice cream in the Tecmilenio Guadalajara cafeteria to fight fatigue and hotness between classes in order to stay active the whole school time. 
We did our online research and we came across this report by Kiwiblog (or commonly known as kiwilimon), where it stated that freshwater has a lot of nutrients that depending on the flavor and preparation, can help students and even teachers in many ways. Other authors and companies have also confirmed the importance of consuming various type of drinks during tiring times.
 After doing interviews and surveys we successfully confirmed that TecMilenio students would indeed approve our project of having an ice cream parlor on the school, or at least an area where they can find freshwater and ice cream to eat between classes or before going home. Of course, we did encounter people who doesn't support our project and the reasons were that they don't consume this type of things because of intolerances or veganism, or because they are worried about their health and sugar intake.
In our document we concluded and thanked everyone who participated. We also promised we would improve our project since there were some stuff we would like to improve, such as adding free sugar and animal product free drinks to put in our parlor. 
Questions
Think of 5 research projects that can arise from your work; answer to the question “what else can be studied based on the results?”
For genetics we think a research project would be to investigate how to improve food modificating it’s genetics without it being dangerous for the food or the environment.
For ecosystem we think we it would be helpful to make a case study where we test the contaminación levels before and after forbidding animal products in a whole city. 
For neuromedicine, to develop a device to see clearly the brain in 3D for surgeys. 
For electric energy, we think a good topic of study is green energy. Continuing developing it to helpour planet.
Imagine how your discoveries can be applied to develop technology, protect the environment, create new policies or regulations, change people’s minds, etc.
Knowledge does not only makes us wiser, but conscious. We strongly believe that a knowledgeable person is most likely to be compromised with the world around them, and the reason why is because deep discoveries and researching exposes to the world the real situation of things.
For example, if a person knows how technology and electric energy works, they probably know how bad and extreme usages impacts greatly the environment. A person who knows is most likely to care and as a consequence, they would make a good use out of things and even would share this knowledge to others. 
A person who reads and investigates about climate change would inevitable come across research about the way our diets impact it, so they would analyze the scientific discoveries and would make a decision. Not only ordinary people, but powerful people could get involved and could create campaigns or protest for better policies that protect our environment.
We always are looking for ways to better our lives. For neuromedicine we believe that future scientists will take the information we have today and they would develop it. The constant search for developing technology won’t ever stop, so every reacher will always inspire other scientists to keep improving and testing their our thesis. 
That’s the reason why appreciating the importance of the daily is so important. When we are curious and wonder, human tend to experiment. And experiments later led to better and better research and discoveries.
Now write some ideas on how the research results may impact in the future. Would they change society, science, culture, environment or any other aspect of the world?
Scientific results will always impact the world, either in a good or a bad way. As a good impact example we have all those people who went vegan after reading how much eating meat and other animal products makes our world suffer.
As a bad example we have CEOs in big companies that mass produce their products or services in an unhealthy way just to keep and keep gaining money and profit. Cause we all know this happens. According to recent research, the whole world could be using solar energy to live, however big companies that provide electric energy are totally against it and they always try their best to keep their clients, even after knowing how damaging their service is to the planet. 
Consider that there will be always people against your work, who would be those detractors and how can they oppose to your results?
As mentioned in the past question, of course big companies that provide their own products or services. Also uninformed people who are comfortable with the way live is going right now.
Conclutions
After recapitulating and summarizing all the topics we discussed in this paper, we strongly believe that the daily (genetics, the environment, medicine, etc) is the most important base to create research and of course further developments that could make our lives better. 
As a final closure of all topics, we would like to remind everyone that everything in life has risks and benefits. Even our food decisions or if we left the light turned on or not. We, as people who care, will not support companies who use scientific advances for their own well, forgetting about humans, animals and plants. We stand in an opinionated reason to protest over making laws that forbid companies to cause less environmental problems.
Also, with this report we convinced ourselves of the magnitude of this problem and how easy it is to solve it. We would like to include that the efforts mentioned in the document to reduce climate change would not only help the environment but also our individual health by reducing our risks of getting heart diseases. 
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