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    Biodiversity provides resources that support human health and medicine. In the film Medicine Man, the main character discovers a potential cancer treatment from a flower native to the ecosystem. Loss of biodiversity could limit discoveries of treatments. Researchers must properly utilize biodiversity to develop medicines and avoid overexploiting natural resources. A community's cultural traditions, as seen in the film, can guide appropriate usage of goods from biodiversity. However, development and business activities like deforestation threaten biodiversity, endangering resources for healthcare. Biodiversity plays an important role in traditional medicines that many populations rely on globally.

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    Biodiversity provides resources that support human health and medicine. In the film Medicine Man, the main character discovers a potential cancer treatment from a flower native to the ecosystem. Loss of biodiversity could limit discoveries of treatments. Researchers must properly utilize biodiversity to develop medicines and avoid overexploiting natural resources. A community's cultural traditions, as seen in the film, can guide appropriate usage of goods from biodiversity. However, development and business activities like deforestation threaten biodiversity, endangering resources for healthcare. Biodiversity plays an important role in traditional medicines that many populations rely on globally.

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    Biodiversity provides resources that support human health and medicine. In the film Medicine Man, the main character discovers a potential cancer treatment from a flower native to the ecosystem. Loss of biodiversity could limit discoveries of treatments. Researchers must properly utilize biodiversity to develop medicines and avoid overexploiting natural resources. A community's cultural traditions, as seen in the film, can guide appropriate usage of goods from biodiversity. However, development and business activities like deforestation threaten biodiversity, endangering resources for healthcare. Biodiversity plays an important role in traditional medicines that many populations rely on globally.

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    Biodiversity provides resources that support human health and medicine. In the film Medicine Man, the main character discovers a potential cancer treatment from a flower native to the ecosystem. Loss of biodiversity could limit discoveries of treatments. Researchers must properly utilize biodiversity to develop medicines and avoid overexploiting natural resources. A community's cultural traditions, as seen in the film, can guide appropriate usage of goods from biodiversity. However, development and business activities like deforestation threaten biodiversity, endangering resources for healthcare. Biodiversity plays an important role in traditional medicines that many populations rely on globally.

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    Exercise 1.

    Film Viewing
    Instructions: watch the movie Medicine Man (1992). Then, write a 300- 500-word reaction
    paper focused on the questions below. Cite scenes and instances in the movie to support
    your answers.
    1. How does biodiversity provide for people's medical needs?
    2. How do researches that utilize biodiversity affect the community?
    3. Why are the cultural traditions of the community important in consuming or using
    the goods sourced from biodiversity?
    4. How do business and development affect biodiversity?
    5. What is your take on the value of biodiversity for health and medicine? What are
    the parameters to distinguish the good and bad ways of utilizing biodiversity in this
    context?

    Biological diversity defined as the existence of many kinds of animals and animals in an
    environment, it is commonly referred as biodiversity. In our daily lives, we often depend on the
    biodiversity in which ways that are not always appreciated. Fresh water, food and fuel
    resources are the products of the ecosystem that the human health depends on. Hence,
    biodiversity plays an important role in all species especially in health and medicine. Biophysical
    diversity of microorganisms sustains the needs for biological, health and pharmacological
    sciences. As an example, in the film “The Medical Man”, Dr. Campbell created a medicine for
    cancer using the bromeliad (flower came from the ecosystem). Therefore, loss in biodiversity
    may limit discoveries of potential treatment on any health diseases/health problems.

    Research utilization of biodiversity may be defined as the proper procedure in using


    different species in creating medicinal treatment. This affects the community if improper
    application is applied. For example, if a researcher wants to create a cure for cancer, he/she
    might use the biodiversity like animals, plants or other species in the ecosystem to be able to
    create a cure for cancer. So, if improper utilization is applied, there is a possibility that we run
    out of things that we can use for development and modernization. Thus, as we all know,
    biodiversity means the variety of life on Earth and without the proper utilization of biodiversity,
    the earth might run out of resources.

    Culture and tradition of the community serves as a basis in using what we have in
    biodiversity. In the film “The Medicine Man”, it was stated that the Indian or the tribe living in
    the forest does not experience diseases because they are ingesting the bromeliad flower. It is
    also stated that ingesting it is one of their culture. So, as Dr. Campbell creating the cure for
    cancer, he uses the culture and tradition of the tribe as his basis. Therefore, culture and
    tradition create a pathway through human health and medicine. Without the opportunity to
    place the cultural values upon goods might result to negative impact on human health as well
    as human well-being

    Nowadays, the earth was keep developing. Buildings, highways, houses and other
    business infrastructure were built on the land as well in the ocean, wherein our ecosystem was
    the first affected. As a matter of fact, everywhere in the world, there is deforestation, climate
    change, overexploitation and such are threats that affects biodiversity. As the world keeps on
    developing and human beings keep on thinking about business, there are also consequences on
    the loss and damage in biodiversity, wherein human health is the first one to be affected.

    In my personal view, the use of biodiversity for health and medicine plays a vital role in
    health care wherein the majority of world’s population depends on the traditional medicine. It
    is a component that the researches and paramedic used in the formulation of the traditional
    medicine. As an illustration, traditional medicine comes from the plants and animals or the
    natural products that are actually came from our ecosystem (biodiversity). On the other hand,
    the medicinal plant (a traditional medicine) is one of the common medication tools that the
    community relies on aside from synthetic medicine.

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