Gene Tierney

With improving technology and The Human Genome Project’s comprehensive list, designing babies has become a legitimate possibility. Though it will come at a hefty price, at least in the beginning, the manipulation of genetic sequences will allow parents to create healthier, stronger, and more beautiful babies. Just because it can be done does that mean it should? Despite the major benefit of designing babies across the world, there are many problems that this new technology allows. Nicholas Agar…

maybe genetics and environment together can cause the onset of anorexia. There are two 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…

Results: TAS2R38 Gene he TAS2R38 gene, encodes a protein that allows people to taste the bitter chemical PTC. To begin the experiment, each student tasted two separate pieces of paper to show their individual phenotypes. The first paper was a control, and the second paper was PTC paper. If the individual tasted a bitterness while tasting the PTC paper, they were classified as a taster, and if nothing was tasted they were classified as a non-taster (Leicht 165). Once these expected phenotypes…

Introduction It is estimated that there are one trillion species on earth despite all being originated from one common ancestor, LUCA. In this essay the importance and origin of diversity within species and between species is explored using Coleoptera as the taxonomic group. Coleoptera is the most dominant order of insects with 350,000-400,000 species, this is 40% of all insect species (Gillott, 1995) and the largest order in the animal kingdom. The degree of differences between individuals is…

called «gene». Proteins are composed of various genes, in turn, define the structure of the cells, regulate the synthesis of all other substances, perceive and transmit signals that cause the cell to react to changes. The set of all genes of an organism is called genotype. In all the cells of the same organism genotype is the same. Genetic engineering is the complex of technology which using molecular biological methods allow changing the structure of the genes and introducing foreign genes with…

The internet has become a cult that worships eccentricity. Take, for example, the killing of Harambe, a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo. After a three-year-old boy got inside the gorilla’s enclosure, zoo officials decided to kill Harambe, fearing for the boy’s life. The controversial decision and odd news story has become the internet’s latest obsession. Through memes like chanting “Dicks out for Harambe,” saying “Harambe died for our sins,” and putting Harambe as a write-in candidate in the US…

Running head: DANGERS OF GMOS AND HEALTH EFFECTS ON ANIMALS: IS IT SAFE? Dangers of GMOs and Health Effects on Animals: Is It safe? Aliyah Panizzi Longwood University DANGERS OF GMOS AND HEALTH EFFECTS ON ANIMALS: IS IT SAFE? In discussions of GMOs, one controversial issue has been on the dangerous effects GMOs have on animal health. On the one hand, some scholars like Zhang and Shi state in their conclusion that GM plants have no effect on the organisms that consume them. On the other…

Direct, indirect and through network. Direct reciprocity is observed through members that share unrelated cooperative genes. Based on these individuals on can infer whether or not it is better to cooperate or defect the other person. This encounter is analyzed through a theoretic game called, Prisoners Dilemma conducted by Axelrod, 1984. A strategy of tic-for-tac where…

Should We Allow Genetic Engineering of Humans? Genetic engineering is a burgeoning technology that has been surging in development and popularity within the last few years. Genetic engineering is the altercation of genes in an organism. Humans have been doing this for millennia through process of selective breeding since the dawn of agriculture. In modern times, we have made a lot of headway on the development of technologies that make the process easier. Today through the advent of new…

In order to accomplish the goal of genome synthesizing, the scientist needed to use certain equipment that would allow them to visualize and make data for the experiment. Previous work demonstrated that experimentation with a single codon was successful. Confirmation that the 57 codon versions of ads and tyrS were functional in vivo and that recoded and nsAA dependent and maintained fitness and provided extremely low escape rates as previously reported. Electroporation protocol…