Asexual reproduction

Artichoke and Avocado The Avocado is used to metaphorically describe the soul within the body. The Avocado has a yellowish flesh, with a seed in the center that contains everything that the fruit truly is. If that seed is introduced back into the life process, it can reproduce by being planted, and continue the life cycle. The rest of the plant is the human body, and the temporary creation that will cease to exist. This view of humans is common between Judaic, Christian, and even Islamic…

Frances Simonson S00150675 Tutor: Richard Wade UNCC300 Assessment Task 2 Human dignity is a complex notion that encompasses inherent and acquired types of dignity. It becomes especially complex when the topic houses a number of opinions, emotions and ethical standpoints on a given topic. This is especially true for the chosen case study: human dignity and gender selection. There are a number of consequences to selecting a child?s gender- both positive and negative. These consequences are…

For many people, a belief system dictates most of their lives. Whether they believe in one god, or a dozen, their everyday actions are determined by their faith. This proves especially true in The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Bible. The events of both works of literature are prompted by the involvement of some sort of overlying, supreme being. Both The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Bible contain the theme that human beings are at the mercy of the gods. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, the gods rule freely…

Exploring the sexual double standard that has been implemented within our society has left a mark. Acknowledging the fact that no matter what a number of sexual partners one may have, there is a double standard. Being a male, one would be considered a “stud” for being able to attract multiple sexual partners, while a female will be deemed a “slut”. This social phenomenon of the double standard of name calling to degrade one person with harsh words due to her actions as her male counterpart…

Primate Social Groups Living in a society where monogamy is the most accepted and practiced form of relationships I had never considered that primates practice any specific relationships let alone more than one. Through research I have found that there are actually six different types of social groups that exist among primates. Those six groups are polygynous, polyandrous, multimale and multifemale, all male, monogamous, and solitary. All six of these primate societies can be found being…

The underlying reason that we as humans cannot follow the advice of Jesus of Nazareth is that we are selfish. What this quote is saying is that what ever action or item you would want to get from someone you should return something of equal value. Having that sense of equal reciprocity is against human nature. Throughout the history of human evolution, it is the selfish ones that survive (Dawkins 2006) . Selfishness goes along with competition with both starting very early in our evolutionary…

Cloning may be considered an extremely taboo topic to talk about. This is because of having fear in the unknown. What many people do not understand about the topic of cloning is it is not a perfected science. Cloning has so much potential to do well and help our society if people would just allow it to blossom into more of a perfected science. If people would just allow it to do so, and not base its future off of the unsuccessful experiments that it had it had in its beginning, then we could…

Reproduction In this essay I will attempt to explain the key events in human reproduction and explain the male and female reproductive systems. Both males and females require fully functioning reproductive systems in order to conceive naturally, I will first begin by explaining the male reproductive system, the testes are cradled within a ‘bag’ of skin called the scrotum, their two functions are to produce sperm cells and sex hormones. Next, the vas deferens. Sperm passes through the vas…

The basic principles are simple; the X-sperm contains more DNA than the Y-sperm. Although this difference is small, it is possible to measure DNA content of individual sperm with sufficient accuracy to distinguish between X- and Y-sperm with about 90% accuracy for 50% of the sperm. Therefore, about half of the sperm are discarded as unsexable. The DNA content of sperm is determined using a fluorescing dye, Hoechst 33342 that readily penetrates the sperm cell membrane and binds to the DNA…

evolved to have complete autonomy with whom we reproduce with, especially how that choice relies heavily with females. The captious nature of females makes sense in a system where males are indiscriminate and eager to spread their genes. The cost of reproduction weighs more heavily on the female as she invests the most time during the development of the offspring. She…