SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND - Beginning of Egyptian hieroglyphics
SOCIETY FINALS REVIEWER writing 2900 BC
- Tortoise shell and oracle bone writing
WEEK 13 were applied 1300 BC
Information Age
- Papyrus roll was used 500 BC
● Period starting in the last quarter
of the 20th century. - Chinese small seal writing was
developed 220 BC
● Modern age - also known as
Computer age, Digital age, or - Parchment codex (Book)
New Media Age. Ancient book that composed of four or
more quire of sheet of papyrus 100 AD
● Information has become a
commodity and effortlessly - Woodblock printing and paper
accessible. Possible through Symbols, Images, and designs are carved
computers and computer in reverse onto block of woods 105 AD
networks.
- Printing press
Importance: Gutenberg revolution Invention of the
● Conveying information has printing press using movable metal type
evolved with increasing speed; 1455
● Development of digital
technologies; - Standardized English Spelling
● and It shapes human civilization. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary 1755
THEORY OF INFORMATION AGE - The Library of Congress
Largest library Washington, D.C 1802
James Messenger
- Invention of Carbon Arc Lamp
● Started in 1982. Produces light by an electric arc Humpry
● Based on interconnection of Davy (1802) Inventor
computers via
telecommunications. - Augusta Lady Byron
Known as first-ever programmer 1824
● Advantage: User Friendly and
convenient. - Invention of Telegraph
● User dependence. Great Britain and Unites States Means of
sending information 1837
HISTORY OF INFORMATION AGE
- Motion Pictures projected on screen
- Sumerian way of writing applied Series of pictures mounted on rotating disk
pictographs 3000 BC and projected them on screen 1861
● Pictograph - Picture words ● Zoetrope - Cylinder with series of
Symbols it represent images inside
- High speed photography
Demonstrated by Eadweard Muybridge
1877 - First personal computer for the public
- First magnetic recordings MITS Altair was the first commercially
Copenhagen Telegraph Company successful PC. Created by Ed Roberts.
Valdemar Poulsen (inventor) 1899 1975
- Motion picture special effects - Apple Macintosh Computer
Le Voyage Dans La Lune First ever real First mac released under the name
science fiction film 1877 Macintosh 1984
- Electronic Amplifying tube (triode) TRUTH OF THE INFORMATION
Consists of three electrode in an evacuated AGE
glass envelope Lee De Forest (inventor)
1906 1. Information must be complete
2. Newer is equated with truer
- Television tube 3.Selection is a viewpoint
Vladimir Zworykin Patented iconoscope 4.The media sells what the culture buys
1923 5.You are what you eat and so is your
brain
- Practical sound movie 6. Anything is great demand will be
Sound film in motion coupled with counterfeit
synchronized sound; opposite to silent 7. Ideas are seen as controversial
films 1926 8. Undead information walks ever on
9. Media presence creates the history
- Invention of hypertext 10. The medium selects the message
Vannevar Bush Foresaw (inventor) 11. The whole truth is a pursuit
Software system allowing extensive cross
referencing between related sections of COMPUTER AND SOME OF ITS
text and associated graphic materials. 1945 TYPES
- Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Computer (ENIAC) First general purpose
computer Design and Built for US ● Most important contributions of
Military 1946 Information age
● Electronic device that stores and
- Birth of field of Information Theory processes data
Proposed by Claude Shannon Scientific ● Has program that can solve a
study of quantification, storage, and problem
communication of digital information
1948 Types of computer
- UNIX operating system ● Personal computer (PC)
Multiuser and multitasking operating - First known as microcomputers
system developed by Bell Laboratory 1969
● Desktop computer
- Microprocessor chip - Describe as a PC that is not
First ever introduced microprocessor chip designed for portability
by intel 1971
● Laptops PC SPECIES
- that integrate the essentials of a ● Reproductively isolated organisms
desktop computer in a
battery-powered package GENETIC BIODIVERSITY
● Biological variation that occurs
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTERS IN within species
S&T
2. Species Biodiversity
● Bioinformatics
- Application of IT to store, organize, and SPECIES DIVERSITY
analyze vast amounts of biological data. ● Species Biodiversity is the kinds
> Available in the form of of plants, animals, and other living
sequences and structures of things present in an area.
proteins
FOOD CHAIN
● Pharmacogenetics ● A linear sequence where nutrients
- For drug development and energy pass through from one
> Genome sequence organism to another.
● Automated services FOOD WEB
- Room services - delivery, ● Complex food chain.
feedback, survey, etc.
3. Ecosystem Biodiversity
● Lesson Preparation
● Online Resources ECOSYSTEM
● A community of organisms and
WEEK 14 their physical environment
Biodiversity and the Healthy Society interacting together.
BIO- Life ECOSYSTEM BIODIVERSITY
DIVERSITY- Variations ● Ecosystem Biodiversity is the
largest and most visible
MAJOR CONCEPTS OF component of Biodiversity.
BIODIVERSITY
THREAT TO BIODIVERSITY
1. Living organisms are numerous
2. Living organisms are abundant in 1. Habitat Destruction
habitats
3. Organisms have different biological ● Usually human-caused.
requirements ● Elimination or alteration of the
4. Biodiversity is essential to human conditions necessary for animals
survival and plants to survive
THREE(3) COMPONENTS OF 2. Pollution
BIODIVERSITY
● Introduction of harmful materials
1. Genetic Biodiversity in the environment
- Water Pollution - Non-lethal
- Land Pollution - Ultra low temperature
- Air Pollution
- Radioactive Pollution ADVANCE IN MOLECULAR
BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
3. Invasive Species
● It studies the composition,
● Species of organism not native in structure, and interactions of
the area; can cause huge economic cellular molecules
and environmental damage
- Development of diagnostic tests
- Clown Knife Fish - Personalized medicine
- Janitor Fish
- Softshell Turtle WEEK 15
Genetically Modified Organism (GMO)
4. Global Climate Change
WHAT ARE GMOs?
● The average long-term changes
over the entire Earth ● There are man-made changes in
- Changes in temperature, the DNA.
precipitation, rising of sea - An animal, plant, or microbe.
levels - NOT natural to the organisms.
5. Overexploitation Importance: Enhancements or
improvements in an organism.
● Any form of abuse to flora and
fauna threatens biological WHAT IS GENETIC
diversity MODIFICATION?
- Overhunting ● Also known as genetic
- Excessive Logging engineering
- Illegal Wildlife Trade
- Removing, modifying, or adding of
CELL TISSUE CULTURE specific genes.
● Technique in which cells that were - Aims to modify the genes to enhance the
part of an organism are growth in capabilities of organisms.
an artificial controlled
environment - Genetic modifications not applicable to
inorganic and organic substances
CRYOPRESERVATION ● Non-living things
TECHNOLOGY
ADVANTAGES OF GMOs
● Process that preserves organelles,
cells, tissues, or any other 1. Desired characteristics of food are
biological constructs by cooling achieved in a shorter time.
the samples to very low 2. Improves nutritional value of food
temperatures. 3. Increased income for farmers
4. Increased crop yield
5. Increased income for farmers
6. Food security
DISADVANTAGES OF GMOs
1. Genetically modified animals
suffer more health related
issues/problems
2. Possible allergic reactions
3. Genetic pollution possibilities
4. Possible of narrowing the genetic
diversity
EXAMPLES OF GM CROPS
1. BT Corn
- Genes of the bacterium (Bacillus
thuringiensis) are added to corn to control
insect pests.
2. GM Tomatoes
3. Golden Rice
4. Spider Goats
5. Cows producing Human Milk
