Today, I had two classes. One in the morning and the other during early afternoon. After class today, I studied for my plant biology exam that is tomorrow during class. The exam covers the first eight lectures that we had in class and covers the topics of photosynthesis, different light receptors, plant pathogens and their defense sytem, and crop diversity. An interesting yet shocking fact I learned during one of the lectures is that undernutrition contributes to nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 and is widespread in Asia and Africa. Knowing that many children are dying from undernutrition is an important reason for studying the plants and crops that are produced to feed a population. Knowing how to effectively speed up the process of growing crops to feed a population who are being underfed can lead to a lower percentage of children under 5 being affected by undernutrition.
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