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Asked by tugii to Louise, Michaela, Sian, Steve, Yvette on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: Scientist. This question was also asked by mizzbibi, zombieslayer75, rosieeee, elinbrodrick.
Question: Why did you choose to become a scientist?
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Yvette Wilson answered on 14 Jun 2010:
At first I really wanted to understand how plants and animals exist and how to conserve them. Then I became more interested in plants because they provide a good study system for genetics. I like my current project because I am both learning more about plants and hopefully my results will be put to good use.
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Michaela Livingstone answered on 14 Jun 2010:
If I’m honest, at the start I wanted to help find cures for genetic diseases, and though obviously that is important and one day maybe we’ll be able to do that successfully, I slowly just got more and more interested in trying to understand how things work in general, what makes us ‘us’? Being a scientist means that I’m a the forefront of learning about these things and y’know, I get to learn about new, interesting stuff all the time.
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Sian Harding answered on 14 Jun 2010:
It seemed the most natural way to live, trying to find out how things work
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Louise Johnson answered on 14 Jun 2010:
I loved what I was learning at uni and didn’t want to stop finding things out!
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Steven Kiddle answered on 14 Jun 2010:
Because i needed a job and it sounded interesting. But now im hooked because it satisfies my curiosity about what life is and how it works
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tugii commented on :
Thank you 🙂