Why biomedical engineers should study biology.
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I can agree in part with these educators. There certainly is a lot of material taught in traditional biology courses for which it is hard to see relevance. After all, who needs to know about the ecosystem of an ocean reef, or the relationships among various segmented worms, or how plants convert sunlight energy and carbon dioxide into sugars? Having to spend time learning these seemingly irrelevant pieces of information, at the expense of not learning other, more pertinent facts, can be an unnecessary extravagance when there is only so much material that can fit into an already overcrowded undergraduate curriculum.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- IEEE pulse
دوره 4 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013