• Question: What do you like best: Biology, Chemistry or physics?

    Asked by 765nepk25 to Oli, yoyehudi, Nina, Kerrianne, Ed on 6 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by Kit Kat, 265nepk22.
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      Oli Wilson answered on 6 Nov 2017:


      1st place: biology. I love the living world and I think it’s absolutely fascinating. How stuff works, how it all relates together – it’s all great. I find genetics and cells less fun than ecology and biodiversity, but overall biology is definitely the winner.
      2nd place: chemistry. While it’s nowhere near biology, I think studying chemicals and their effects can be really cool. Plants are among nature’s best chemists – they make a whole range of poisons, medicines etc – and we wouldn’t understand these nearly as well without chemistry. Plus, when I was a teacher it let me set stuff on fire, and that’s always cool.
      3rd place: physics. I’m glad people use it to find out the mysteries of the universe, but it just doesn’t grab me in the same way as biology, and I generally didn’t enjoy it as much as chemistry. Don’t get me wrong, it can be awesome (in my A-level class we studied mechanics, which involved shooting a tiny cannonball through hoops that may have been on fire…) but still, bottom place on this podium for me.
      What about you, how would you rank them and why?

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