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Strengthened comprehension of the connotation of the biological professional  vocabulary by its "metaphorically and widely used in society"

  

  1. School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
  • Online:2016-06-18 Published:2016-06-18

Abstract:

Recent years, a few of professional words of life science appeared rapidly in many kinds of publicity media. The present paper summarized the top ten socialized widely professional words i.e neural networks, fermentation, cell, immune, clone, replication, gene, cellular differentiation, ecology, metamorphosis, and analyzed the connotation of these words, at the meantime it also enumerated the typical example so as to animate the enthusiasm of students in classroom in lessons of biology. Finally, this article suggested several ways for how to use the excogitation of the lessons when involved the biological professional vocabulary with "metaphorically and widely used in society" in teaching class: 1)introduced the biological concept followed by giving simply several relevant examples of "metaphorically and widely used in
society"; 2) introduced simply several relevant examples of "metaphorically and widely used in society" followed by concluding the biological concepts by students; 3) the selected examples of "metaphorically and widely used in society" usually had positive significance.

Key words: biology, key concepts, metaphorically and midely used in society, teaching class