Many different factors have an influence on women’s pregnancy’s including their religion and culture. “Finger-prick test predicts child’s sex” is an article in the New Science magazine written by Australia chemistry expert, Alice Klein in April 2018. This investigation discusses the significant advancement in technology that will now allow pregnant women to discover the sex of their baby’s at 5 weeks as well as the presence of down syndrome. It also discusses the application and limitation. However
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Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) has been a widely researched organism for botanists and molecular biologists for over one-hundred years. Over this time Arabidopsis has become a useful tool for scientists across the globe. Its usefulness comes from the quick germination, small size and the ability to copiously produce seeds (Koornneef & Meinke, 2010). In addition to those attributes, the size of the genome makes Arabidopsis a useful tool for identifying genes and their functions. The Arabidopsis
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The Implications of Prenatal Testing for Disabilities [1] Advancements in technology are creating rapid growth in genetic research including new ways of offering prenatal testing and genetic selection. Currently, prospective parents can choose to test for the sex of the fetus before choosing to have the child or abort the pregnancy. It is possible that technology could be used to identify medical traits that could lead to avoiding giving birth to a disabled child. When considering the best way to
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what I am most curious about, the first thing that enters my mind is genetic engineering. I would like to know more about how this technology began and what its original purpose was. Also, I long to discover how this technology is being expanded, what purpose it is it being aimed towards, and how it is due to develop in the near future. I have read that Francis Bacon was the first scientist to allude to the future field of genetic engineering and terminator technology. Although terminator technology
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susceptible individuals and to improve health concerns in purebred dogs. However, the prevalence of genetic diseases within the pedigree population has continued to rise, which poses the question: does the likelihood of inheriting a condition increase as the genetic variation in purebred dogs decrease? Therefore, deciphering the correlation between the genetic variation in purebred dogs and the presence of genetic disorders is of great interest. We employed PCR, gel electrophoresis and RFLP analysis to examine
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Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) was a rare disorder that newborns inherited. SCID effected the immune system making it very life threatening, making the body weak. Children with this disease can be easily affected with pneumonia, meningitis, or other infections. Vaccines that contained viruses and bacteria such as the Measles, Polio, and Chickenpox could make the child very ill. Gene therapy is one of many treatments for SCID but has been known to cause
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The difference between genomic and genetics are that genetic scrutinizes the functioning and composition of a single gene. Whereas genomics address all genes and their inter relationship in order to identify their combined effect on the function, growth and development of the whole organism (W.H.O, 2002). Medicine is an ever evolving process, healthcare benefits greatly from the unprecedented and ongoing work elucidating to the genetic/genomic basis of health, illness, disease and treatment response
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Wild Fruit Flies Bred With Scarlet Fruit Flies Introduction: Drosophila melanogaster is the scientific name for fruit flies. The flies are widely used today for genetics, physiology, and life history evolution. Since it is easy to care for, has 4 pairs of chromosomes, breeds quickly, and lays many eggs, the fruity fly is used for numerous studies. In this lab, fruit flies are to be examined to study heredity. With each new generation, probability, protein synthesis, and the principles of DNA,
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The Great Danger of Genetic Modification in Human Beings. According to Ronald Greene in ‘Building Baby from the Genes Up’, “National Institute of Health has come up with a program to build machines with the ability to detect genetic letters in human’s genome.” (Greene, 496) The researchers believe that this will lead to being able to see DNA sequences which could later result in a particular disease or illness in a person. According to Ronald Greene in ‘Building Baby from the Genes Up’, “National
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that has been tampered or produced through chemical means that deviate the organism from its nature intended composition. The concept of modifying an organism can be rooted from selective breeding, the concept of manually modifying an organism’s genetics was introduced in the 1970’s. Using science, humanity was essentially able to play God and control the traits of another organism; controlling how fast an organism grows, which nutrients were in said organism, and even how the organism looks. Humanity
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