Amniotic fluid

Area of Study 3 – Investigating an Issue • How is Huntington’s Disease inherited and what are the consequences and treatments for this genetic disorder? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Huntington’s Disease is a specific neurological condition that affects the brain and nervous system. This specific disease is inherited by an autosomal dominant pattern meaning a single copy of the altered gene in each cell may cause the…

Description: Phenylketonuria, also known as PKU, is a genetic disorder caused by the mutation of the PAH gene. The PAH gene is responsible for creating the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase. This enzyme breaks down the amino acid phenylalanine into tyrosine for the body. This mutation causes the PAH gene to not break down the phenylalanine and because so, dangerous and toxic levels of phenylalanine can build up in the blood, brain, and other organs and tissues. Without being able to digest…

Though Nicodemus never bothered to know why a man should be born again, Jesus responded by breaking his concept to smaller pieces. Jesus made use of apologetic in this discourse to illustrate the essential of the second birth. Nicodemus should understand there is no short cut to entering heaven. Man must be born again. It is the only way to enter the kingdom of God. Man must “be born of Water and of the Spirit” (John 3:5) to enter the Kingdom of God. If one considers that the discourse is on the…

Abortion is a widely controversial topic, it is the act of ending a pregnancy. There is a constant debate on wether abortion is right or wrong. Many people believe that a fetus is just as much a human being as any of us and there for, abortion is murder. Others believe that a women should not be forced to have a child she does not want, so my question is, should having an abortion be made illegal? The first stage of pregnancy is fertilisation, when the sperm and egg meet. After about six days…

Medicine is constantly changing and evolving as we grow in our advancement with technology and our understand of the body. For decades, however, there has been a general agreement that some diseases will never be cured - like cancer or Alzheimer’s. Thanks to an important discovery made only a century ago, the curability of these diseases, and other future diseases, is being challenged by a new cure all called stem cells. The term “stem cell” has been around for a quite some time, even though the…

Historically, female offenders were imprisoned in a different building within a male prison. Women had to deal with sexual abuse, physical abuse, lack of services, and inadequate privacy. Prison guards were usually male because the characteristics of a prison guard were to mean and strong something society thought women lacked. Male guards had little understanding of female offenders and therefore led to brutal punishment. In 1873, the first all-female prison in the Unites States opened up and…

of an organism)or multipotent specialized for a certain tissues e.g. blood). Whilst stem cells are mainly known for coming from embryos, there are a wide variety of other sources from which they come, including the bone marrow, placenta, teeth, amniotic fluid and umbilical cord blood, arguably the largest and best source of these cells. Looking into the future, scientists have predicted great change for medicine due to…

amniocentesis. Ultrasound sonography uses high frequency waves to creat a visual respresntation of the fetus structues. Chronic villus sampling takes a small sample of placenta to detect genetic defects. Lastly, amniocentesis takes a sample of the amniotic fluid and it is used to detect chromosomal disorders. 5. Explain some of the ways that heredity and environment interact to produce individual differences in development. There are three different ways that heredity and enviroment correlate…

Comprehensive Medical Report on Sickle Cell Anemia Where did sickle cell come from? Sickle cell disease is said to have originated in West Africa. Sickle Cell Anemia is a very serious disease. It is a genetic disorder, which is inherited, and is the result of mutated hemoglobin. When a person has sickle cell anemia, their red blood cell count is lower than that of a normal person with a healthy amount of red blood cells. When a person does not have enough healthy red blood cells in their body,…

The Prostate Gland: An Overview: Anatomy: The prostate gland is shaped as an inverted cone in which the apex is pointing downward, the base is referring upward, and the midgland is sandwiched in between. In an antro-posterior view, the gland lies with its long axis parallel to the anterior rectal wall. It is bordered superiorly by the bladder (ventrally) and the seminal vesicles (dorsally), and inferiorly by the urogenital diaphragm (Jung and Westphalen, 2012). The prostate is separated from…