Cell Biology Reflection

In the short-term of this class, what I have learned in Cell Biology has sometimes coincided with my Genetics class where I am able to study for one and then able to also understand the other. In the long-term, as my profession focusses mainly on different types of genetics and virus interactions with the cells, a large portion of cell biology has been and will be useful for my future. Not only learning of what I normally focused on as the genetics of how a virus can affect the cell, but also how possible enzymes and other factors that are released by a viral body might affect a cell even if the viral DNA does not activate. While this wasn’t a subject of this class, when we went over the specific actions/responses and overall effects of differing enzymes and factors within a cell and how each chemical change can affect so many other areas of the cell, it can only make one wonder what the rest of a virus besides its DNA can do to change the internal cellular habitat. Probably the most interesting thought was also how a virus might transport its own enzymes and DNA through the cell for it would have to use the cells own transport system to be targeted and moved to the nucleus from the cell membrane along with the secondary movement outward again. If I was to work alongside virology and phage biology, I would need to understand these processes better not only in human cells, but also the cells of many other creatures of which I never even thought of before the lesson in this course.