User:ChristaBicego

Christa Bicego

I'm majoring in biology and hopefully attending veterinary school in September of 2012. Mathematics is found everywhere in biology and science as a whole. An example of math in my everyday studies is, mathematics aiding in predicting population trends. Past data could be used to plot and graph for a visual representation of past populations. With the x-axis possibly being time and the y-axis being population. Seeing the data in a graph allows for one to see the increases, decreases, and carrying capacity (horizontal asymptote) of the population. Algebra, a common concept of mathematics is used to produce a formula/ equation to predict the population in a given year (or time). Another example is during lab experiments, I spend a lot of time examining (testing) an organism and recording data. A lot of the time the data consists of numbers. These numbers are very important when deciding if the experiment is significantly significant and if it can support the hypothesis. When the data is substituted into say ... either a chi-squared or 95% confidence interval formula one can determine if their hypothesis stands or is rejected. These are two simple examples of how mathematics is used in science and specifically biology. I believe the whole concept of science is built upon math.