Biological core literacy refers to a person's key ability and comprehensive quality in the field of life science, including observation, analysis and understanding of life phenomena, as well as familiarity and application of biological concepts such as ecosystems, genes and cells.
Cultivating biological core literacy aims to make individuals better understand themselves and the relationship between life and environment, and at the same time make wise decisions by using scientific knowledge to promote social sustainable development.
1, Ecological Wisdom: An important aspect of biological core literacy is the understanding of the ecosystem. This includes understanding ecological balance, biodiversity, energy flow and material cycle.
An individual with ecological wisdom can better understand the impact of human activities on the environment and propose ways to protect the ecosystem.
2. Scientific methodology: Biology is an empirical science. To cultivate the core literacy of biology, it is necessary to guide individuals to learn to observe, experiment, assume and verify with scientific methodology.
Having the literacy of scientific methodology enables individuals to think and solve problems independently, and at the same time treat information rationally and improve their scientific literacy.
3. Understanding of cells and genes: The basic unit of life is cells, and genes are the genetic basis of life. Biological core literacy requires individuals to understand the structure and function of cells and the role and genetic mechanism of genes.
This is not only helpful to understand one's own life, but also helpful to understand the evolution process of populations and species.
4. Life ethics and social responsibility: the cultivation of biological core literacy needs to combine life science with ethics to guide individuals to think about the application and limitations of life science.
At the same time, it emphasizes the social responsibility of life science research and application to prevent the ethical and social problems that biotechnology may bring.
5. Interdisciplinary thinking: Biological core literacy requires individuals to have the ability of interdisciplinary thinking, combine biological knowledge with chemistry, physics, mathematics and other disciplines, and understand life sciences more comprehensively. This helps to cultivate the ability to innovate and solve interdisciplinary problems.
6. Continuous learning and scientific communication: the cultivation of biological core literacy is not once and for all, but requires individuals to have the ability to continue learning and constantly update scientific knowledge.
At the same time, with the ability of scientific communication, scientific knowledge can be better accepted by the society and promote the interaction between science and the public.
In the era of globalization and scientific and technological development, cultivating biological core literacy is not only related to individual life literacy, but also related to social sustainable development and global environmental protection.
Through systematic life science education and training, we can expect more citizens with biological core literacy to participate in the construction of global ecological civilization in the future.