According to the page 24 of chapter 2, Dr. Sharon
Moalem provides the traditional practice that enabled the ancient generations to analyze the sick for diabetes. Diabetes is the disease that has been
continued and observed since long time ago; for example, for thousands of years, the
observers diagnosed someone diabetes on basis, whether the urine is sweet or
not by smelling and tasting the diabetics’ urine. Actually, in the past,
Chinese physicians diagnosed and monitored diabetes by observing whether ants
were attracted to someone’s urine. Diabetics have sugary urine because of
the malfunction of the insulin to create the glucose properly (the process
through which insulin help the body use glucose is broken, and the sugar in the
blood builds up to dangerously high level). The idea of a person diagnosing and
monitoring the patient connects to Big Idea 4: Biological systems interact, and
these systems and their interactions possess complex properties.
From the textual support, we know that people have been diagnosing illness, like diabetes, even before they had the advanced technological support. What and how were other diseases could have been diagnosed or treat patients? How would helping each other within community affect the gene pool? Also, go back to the protein synthesis unit and analyze how insulin would be unable to metabolize glucose properly.
You may also use the outside sources.
(Hyung Eun (Ginny) Lee, helee4@students.d125.org)
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