Belgian Blue

have been able to manipulate the alleles in animals for favourable traits through the use of selective breeding. But, now that technology has become so advanced, humans have developed a new process of manipulating the gene transfer through transgenesis, where scientists can create new alleles in animals. This essay shows how the selective breeding method and transgenesis method are carried out on the Belgian Blue Cattle and the Spidergoat. Selective Breeding in Belgian Blue Cattle Selective Breeding is a process where individuals who have desirable traits are selected by breeders to mate and produce offspring who also have the desirable trait.(1) In Belgian Blue cattle, the trait that breeders are wanting to select for is Muscular Hypertrophy or “Double Muscling” which is a recessive allele and expressed when it is homozygous.(2) The double muscling occurs naturally due to a mutation where 11 nucleotides are deleted in the myostatin protein that regulates the growth of muscles, produced in muscle cells.(8) This causes the myostatin protein to not work and therefore the Belgian Blue has an increase in lean muscle growth. Cattle with “double muscling” are selected by breeders through the selective breeding process for the extra meat available due to the mutation. The increased meat produced is good for beef production and…

eat the fruit form the Tree of life, or Tree of knowledge. Yet they ate from the Tree of Knowledge anyway and are banished from the Garden and from God’s presence. In the Poisonwood Bible the garden of Nathan is a normal garden, yet it carries just as much relevancy and symbolism as the tree of knowledge did. The Price family previously lived in Georgia, so when Nathan Price bought along his seeds for the garden he bought American seeds, which would only grow in American soil with American…

In Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible, Leah has a reveals, “God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves”(327). This relates directly to Nathan’s life, as his life begins a long downward spiral to his own demise. The Poisonwood Bible shows how stress from war can affect human relations and cause deep emotional problems. The book begins with the Price family going to the Congo unprepared, and trying to convert the locals. The failed attempts of…

Coming from the first world, economically blessed United States, the Price’s travel to the third world country of the Congo. Amidst all of the dangers; the dark and dreary jungle filled with snakes of animal and human nature, the Congo’s unsafe, unsecure quality of life, and the constant struggling fight for supremacy, the Price’s have come to revive the broken souls of the Congo. They have come to achieve redemption for abolishing the spirits of those who died in the Bataan Death March, by…

formed, the economy began to improve, and the societal wellbeing of the French people. This is similar to the way that the overall prosperity of the Congolese was greatly enhanced after the revolution. The Congo Revolution led to many changes in regards to society, politics, and economy. The Democratic Republic of Congo has always been extremely impoverished. As of 2014, it is the most impoverished country in the world. While once enveloping the entire nation, the currently majority in regards…

In the late 19th century, the African continent was largely unchartered, and many wanted to claim a piece of the continent that had vast new economic resources. King Leopold II of Belgium created associations and financed a number of expeditions in Central Africa to explore this land and its resources. At the Berlin Conference of 1884, King Leopold II of Belgium was granted the coveted Congo River basin. This territory was called the Congo Free State while it was under the control of King…

In The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, the need to break away from family on behalf of someone’s own well being is a lesson readers have learned from this novel. When the family’s missionary effort to convert Africans to Christianity becomes perilous, the father/husband, nonetheless, continues to follow through with his mission at the hands of his own family’s demise. Later on in the novel, the family goes separate directions after the youngest daughter passed away from a snakebite,…

Aviance Carlisle Harvey APLC 9-7-14 In Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible Nathan Price leaves home yet,he finds that home remains significant in his life; home’s significant to instill the morals that he lived by before his move to Congo and how they were able to be heightened afterwards, leading him to develop a more controlling personality while inflicting his beliefs on others. Nathan fought in War World II and almost lost his life, but was lucky enough to escape the death…

Louis Blues, Overall Armstrong wrote and performed some of the most popular and well known jazz songs of all time. Larkin states, "It is impossible to overstate Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong's importance in jazz." He adds, "He was also more than a jazz musician he was an enormously popular entertainer"(pp. 232) Armstrong unlike other black jazz men and women, was one of the first to be welcomed in the upper echelons of white society. In addition Armstrong was also an influential singer,…

This emphasizes the theme of race, and how the colonists believed they were superior mainly because they “conquered” the land. When in reality, the native tribes had been on the land in Africa for decades. Marlow is an agent for the Company, a Belgian ivory trading firm. Throughout his journey, they learn about Kurtz, a god and prisoner of the natives. After rescuing Kurtz, Marlow’s point of view shows us how he succumbs to madness and disease. The novel primarily focuses on how the “savages”…