15
DECEMBER 2019.
LOT
UEB 16, KAMPUNG MENERONG,
06400
POKOK SENA,
KEDAH
DARUL AMAN.
Dear
Dr. Dayang Salwani and Dr. Mickey Vincent,
My purpose in writing this letter is
to describe and explain what I learned from the biochemistry course along this
first semester in UNIMAS. After what I learned about biochemistry to this day,
I have benefited from a deeper study of biochemistry. I am grateful and
thankful to the lecturer who are Dr Dayang Salwani and Dr Mickey Vincent for
helping me and my colleagues in discussing and explaining in an
easy-to-understand way each topic in biochemistry. Using the e-portfolio
method, I was happy and excited to study biochemistry although at first I was a
bit hard to accept but I gradually fell in love with the specialty of
biochemistry. In addition, it raised many questions and sparked a curiosity
among my friends, which led us to go further and deeper to learn a topic
covered in this course. For example, in one assignment which requiring us to
publish one video to describe the process involved in Glycolysis, Krebs Cycle
and Electron Transports System. We've spent our time making enough preparations
to present the discussion. With what we learn has been etched in our minds, we
have a better understanding of what is being discussed among our peers and also
create the most effective way to make it easier for students to understand in a
short time.
Moreover, with the knowledge in biochemistry,
I can identify one importance of biochemistry in agriculture. Agriculture
biochemistry plays a valuable and vital role in farming which preventing
dangerous diseases, establishing the treatment of diseases and also increasing
e the production or yield. For Dr. information, my mother was one of those
involved in cultivation and my grandmother owned many gardens such as durian
orchard, rambutan, mangosteen and most of all was a banana orchard. At first,
our banana plantation did not succeed and many were damaged then eventually
died. I took this opportunity to find a way to solve this problem by doing a
research on fertiliser as I had the fundamentals knowledge learned in
biochemistry at UNIMAS. Luckily, I have found best fertiliser for banana
cultivation. First, to have good fruiting and healthy fruit trees, they need
full sun, organic matter, and lots of fertilizer as they are heavy feeders.
Therefore, banana fertilizer needs to include a high amount of NPK which are
Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium. For gaining high portion of bananas, we
need to feed it regularly. A balanced formula makes an excellent banana
fertilizer and can be used regularly which provides the plant with a sufficient
amount of all the necessary micro and secondary nutrients needed.
With what I gained from this
knowledge, my mother was very proud and happy to have come up with a solution
to improve the way our family cultivated crops. So, I’m not at loss if I study
this biochemistry, besides gaining useful knowledge, I can enlarge my mother's
and grandmother's crop production in the village too! Interestingly enough to
know that banana plants are not trees at all but they are the world’s largest
herb. The main stem is the fruiting stem enrobed by large leaves and the size
of the plant which makes people assume it’s a tree. I was touched to learn more
by studying biochemistry. Millions of thanks to the creators of plant
fertilizers and to the lecturers who specialize in biochemistry for your
lecture from first class until this day.
Sincerely,
_______Jannah_______
(NURJANNAH
DALILAH BINTI AHMAD HALIZAN)
