Imagine being adopted from a foreign country, you don’t know anything about your family’s genetic history or your ancestry. What can you do to find out these types of things? You could take a genetic test, genetic testing can be used to help prevent diseases, it’s the analysis and collection of someone's DNA. It helps identify what diseases someone is predisposed to and can recommend steps to help them change their lifestyle. A wide variety of genetic tests are now available to the public, some give
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‘Flowers for Algernon” Persuasive Essay 1 out of 5 American adults have an I.Q. of 70 or lower, what if we told you there was a surgery to fix it. In the science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon is 37 years old, and has an I.Q. of 68. Then Charlie was offered to have a surgery to have his I.Q. tripled (204). Charlie Gordon was right to have the A.I. surgery because he contributed to science, raised his I.Q. , and got to be normal. Charlie Gordon wanted to be
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a) So, FOXP2 was the gene discovered in the KE family, whose family members over 3 generations had a severe speech disorder. This diffuse condition affects grammar, speech production, non-verbal intelligence and non-speech related movement of the mouth and face. They tested affected and unaffected members of the family and concluded that the disorder has the following characteristics, defects in processing words, understanding of more complex sentences, inability to form intelligible speech, defects
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Cloning is a very confusing subject. Somehow, scientists are able to clone an animal from only DNA. Scientists have come so far, that they have cloned extinct animals. Most of the animals die when they are young, but they are getting better at keeping these animals alive. There is also natural cloning. Identical twins is a type of natural cloning. Cloning is very interesting. The most important cloning that ever happened was Dolly the Sheep. Dolly the Sheep was the first cloned mammal ever
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Standard Trisomy 21 is when an extra 21st chromosome is duplicated. The extra copy could come from the egg or sperm cell. Translocation is caused when pieces of the 21st chromosome is located on another chromosome such as 14 or 17. And finally Mosaicism, Mosaicism is the presence of multiple types of cells with different genotypes in one individual cell. An example of this is when, some cells contain the usual 46 chromosome but will also contain genetic material of 47 as well. (What is Down Syndrome?pg
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Imagine a world full of “Mini-Hitlers”, genetic replicates of Adolf Hitler, seeking world domination. Picture them starting a second Holocaust on a worldwide scale, killing millions upon millions of people as a “final solution” to establish a superior race. This scenario is far-fetched, but this is the kind of thing people think about when they hear the word “cloning”. Cloning has frequently surfaced within the media, and continues to garner attention. For example, the movie Jurassic Park features
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very flawed. At the moment of conception a full human person exist. A person is a person from the moment of conception. Everything about the person, like hair color, skin color and size was decided from that moment. Through the act of taking out stem cells from a developing human, one is preventing the embryo from developing in a normal way. This means one is preventing the embryo from becoming what is supposed to be: a human. Some argue that an embryo in an early stage of life is too undeveloped or
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worksheet. The assignment was about cell division and the different stages of the cell cycle. We were expected to be able to complete the assignment completely with no blanks on our papers. We were also expected to answer in full sentences to receive an “A”. This particular assignment is similar to others we have worked on because like other class works, we had to experiment and observe what was happening. The point to this assignment was to learn how the cells in our body work and how they divide
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ubiquitin has attached to the protein, the proteasome allows the protein to fasten itself to its cap. The cap opens and the unwinding protein is able to enter the catalytic core of the proteasome. The protein is chopped up and released back into the cell to be used again. Occasionally, this system can malfunction, leaving either too much of a faulty protein or breaking down healthy ones. This can cause diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, cancers, rheumatoid arthritis, and many infectious diseases
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Imagine a world where no one has disabilities, diseases or any other problem like that and Imagine that humans could live to 150 or above. Well as it turns out this just maybe be possible. “Recently Scientist have started using a new form of surgery that involves using enzymes to get rid of diseases and disabilities by cutting them out” (Griffin, A , 2017). This is known as Genetic Therapy or Gene Engineering and with it we could change the world for the better. So now I’ll tell you just some of
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