Epigenetics

Last Ape Standing by Chip Walter “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass During the course of evolution different kinds of humans have always been challenged by nature and were forced to adapt. In his book “Last Ape Standing” Chip Walter tries to explain thoroughly how we are the only remaining human species that inhabits our planet right now and why so many others vanished from the face of the earth in the last seven million years. Only the best…

Since the dawn of cognitive thought, human civilizations have sought to understand the inheritance of certain physical traits from parents to their offspring. The limited knowledge of the true mechanism of inheritance remained elusive for many generations. The role of inheritance was clear, as seen with selective breeding of livestock and plant life. This could be seen by, breeding two parental types that had specific desirable traits and getting the desired results in offspring, most of the…

My overarching research interests focuses on delineating animal 's metabolic responses to nutrition interventions or health conditions, associated with the animal performance and quality of its derived products. I use a combination of modern analytical chemistry (liquid/gas chromatography and mass spectrometry) and bioinformatics (univariate and multivariate statistical analysis) to measure metabolites in biological samples to provide insights on physiological or pathological status and…

Arthur Jones has just come back home from kindergarten, eagerly telling his older sister Alice about the enormous sand castle that he built with his best friend Jonathan. Arthur, a fictional child, has just recently turned five years old. He is loving kindergarten and has made many new friends in class. He’s a very clever child who loves to read. When he’s not at school, he likes to watch cartoons and make puzzles. Occasionally, he will play some video games. Arthur is developing parallel to…

Erik Erikson is one of the famous theorist during his time due to his work in expanding and developing Freud’s theory of stages. According to Erikson, psychosocial development, functions around The Epigenetic Principle . “This principle says that we develop through a predetermined unfolding of our personalities in eight stages” (Schoger, HDFS 2317 Lecture, Fall 2016). Erikson’s model of psychosocial development explains the different stages of life through life lessons and possible conflicts…

ways this can happen. One is gene-environment interaction, which basically means that if a person has a certain gene and is placed in the right environment, then that gene could be activated and could potentially cause anorexia. The other way is epigenetic effects. This is when the environment changes gene expression and can alter the phenotype (Culpert et al., 2015). There have been studies on these types of factors contributing to anorexia, but there has not been many with whom have any…

Although cloning may not seem to be a huge practice, it has been done several times in different breeds of animals. Everyone has heard of Dolly the sheep, right? She is the first, and most famous, clone in the world. Cloning is a complex process that lets one exactly copy the genetic, or inherited, traits of an animal (FDA, 2017). The cloning of livestock began in 1996, with Dolly, and has become more prevalent in the years since. There are many reasons a producer may want to clone their…

“We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo” (Michael Steele). Stem cells are very beneficial for many reasons and can be used for transplants and testing new medications to help cure diseases and cancer. The negative aspect of stem cells is that embryos can be killed for further research. The research in stem cells…

Developmental psychology lets me know who Joyxanne S. Alarde really is. This course functioned as my own personal researcher that uses many research designs to obtain the desired results and answers to my "divergent-like" questions as I go through different changes as an individual and how these transformations affect me as I go along in my life. Life turn us into a stronger and smarter person as we face the challenges it offers and learn the lessons of it afterwards. Erik Erikson's…

At some point or the other, most of us have heard the delightful squeals of a baby who has figured out, by touching just one toy on the mobile above the crib, he can shake all of the parts. The game involves allowing the mobile to stabilize so the baby can do this over and over again. As that child grows up, he will learn when one family member is touched profoundly or has an intense emotional reaction, he will also shake, and wait anxiously for the family to stabilize. The baby’s mobile is…