| When realizing the term data acquisition (DAC) it's | | | | and electrical signals before a computer |
| important to first know what is being | | | | manipulates the data and its signals and |
| acquisitioned: real world data. And real world data | | | | waveforms are processed. Critical information is |
| translates directly into the life sciences. | | | | then obtained and stored digitally in a computer |
| Life science, or biology, is a discipline of science | | | | processor, completing the first and second steps |
| that has, for hundreds of years, formed opinions | | | | of the data acquisition process. |
| of scientists, doctors, and thinkers alike. Theories | | | | After life science has been converted to |
| and medications have been created with the | | | | wavelength data, it is recorded by a data logger. |
| study of life science, just as crimes have been | | | | Data logging is an electronic device that collects |
| solved, and organisms understood. The basic way | | | | data over time, or in a specific radius, and is |
| living organisms interact with one another and | | | | collected by one of three means, which include: |
| their surroundings, how these organisms are | | | | built in instruments and sensors, or external |
| structured, how they grow, what their origin may | | | | instruments and sensors. After said data is |
| be, and their general evolution, is more or less | | | | collected, manipulated, and transformed, useful |
| what the term 'life science' encapsulates. | | | | information is highlighted to suggest different |
| Real world data gets manipulated by a computer, | | | | types of scientific conclusions. |
| where its signals and waveforms are processed, | | | | This process, seemingly lengthy, has allowed |
| extracting critical information and storing it digitally | | | | many growths in scientific understanding and |
| in a computer processed machine. The data gets | | | | continues on a number of levels to produce |
| measured by components of data acquisition | | | | further understanding of organisms, and their |
| systems where sensors convert measurements | | | | relationship to the world at large. |