UoM General Chat

[alondouek]

plants can be cool ok
you're making me think they're boring by saying all these mean things about them D:

photosynthesis is pretty neat tbf

[vox nihili]

photosynthesis is pretty neat tbf

Seconded. We'll give you that Levi, otherwise your life is empty...

[Confusedbrah]

[alondouek]

this forum isnt for talking about plants either

plant section ------>
that way mate.

I'll give you three guesses as to why this thread is called 'general chat', and the first two don't count.

[LeviLamp]

Confusedbrah, you're downvoting helpful posts, being nasty to us super-duper-friendly people and repeatedly reasking your questions. If your question is overlooked or (more likely) not answered as nobody knows the answer, contact the university and/or do some further research. This is UoM's general chat for a general discussion between UoM (and non-UoM) students (NOT explicitly a help-only thread), surely you can allow us a little bit of tangential plant waffle ((

Seconded. We'll give you that Levi, otherwise your life is empty...

it's ok I have subjects about animals and cells and language to fill up the void that is my botanical life

[vox nihili]

this forum isnt for talking about plants either

plant section ------>
that way mate.

He's trying to take away my first amendment rights 

it's ok I have subjects about animals and cells and language to fill up the void that is my botanical life

That's much, much, much better to hear! You're major in Zool yeah?

[LeviLamp]

Yes, I'm majoring in zoology. Animals are sort of more rad, sorry plants

[alondouek]

it's ok I have subjects about animals and cells and language to fill up the void that is my botanical life

How about all of the above (except botany lol)? Endocrinology and systems biology, the language of cells!

I'm pretty sure UoM's physiology department would have something on this if you were so inclined

[LeviLamp]

Not doing human physiology = too bad for me (due to prereqs), I'll have to learn about them all separately (there is stuff on it in the biotech and bioinformatics masters though, if I decide on them over zoology). I can still do a few 3rd year physio subjects, though; reproductive physiology is looking like the most likely contender but is taught by a sex-crazy old man :C

[vox nihili]

Yes, I'm majoring in zoology. Animals are sort of more rad, sorry plants

They really are, agreed there!

I once considered doing Botany (ditching Biomed at the last minute and into science) just so I could be unique, but then thought that maybe I should be taking life more seriously...

Although, for some weird arse reason, all the botany people do is study protozoa... :|

[LeviLamp]

PROTISTS ARE SO COOL THOUGH I WISH I COULD TAKE A SUBJECT ABOUT THEM I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHY THEY STUDY PROTISTS (and protozoans too as a subset of that I guess)

Are you still planning on taking Ecology?

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

They really are, agreed there!

I once considered doing Botany (ditching Biomed at the last minute and into science) just so I could be unique, but then thought that maybe I should be taking life more seriously...

Although, for some weird arse reason, all the botany people do is study protozoa... :|

I think it's because diseases like Malaria are due to protists (namely "Apicomplexa"). These apicoplexa have reduced plastids (used to be functioning chloroplasts which are now reduntant and have lost their function). Thus, botanists are researching this organism as a means to trying to use herbicides to specifically target malarial infected cells since these reduced plastids have plant like genes.

LOL OMG BIOL10005 HAHAHAHAHA

[vox nihili]

PROTISTS ARE SO COOL THOUGH I WISH I COULD TAKE A SUBJECT ABOUT THEM I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHY THEY STUDY PROTISTS (and protozoans too as a subset of that I guess)

Are you still planning on taking Ecology?

Proves I paid attention. I thought the plural was protozoa, not the Genus...and I thought that protists and protozoa were synonyms. Whoooops.

Yeah, and I totally agree with that actually! They are pretty damn cool. Our lecturer that we had at the start of the year was the guy who discovered the relic chloroplast in Plasmodium, which is pretty bloody cool. And the lecturer we had for protists does some pretty cool shit on the same stuff, and has just left to take a role at Cambridge!

I'm still considering it, not sure though! At the moment I've got a really cruisy linguistics subject down—it's all about how to teach and learn second languages.

[vox nihili]

These apicoplexa have reduced plastids (used to be functioning chloroplasts which are now reduntant and have lost their function).

Wew, so I'm glad I got that right in my next post at least! Know something about protists

And to the rest, that makes sense! I guess there's nowhere else really to put them either, it's all pretty cool!

[lzxnl]

I envy all you people who can enjoy bio.