Genetic code

letters which each represent a certain chemical. These chemicals include thymine, cytosine, adenine, and guanine. The four chemicals bind to each other to form chains that specify which amino acids will be needed to complete a protein (“Definition of Genetic Code”). Another source states that all living creatures share the exact same four chemicals. The sequence of the chemicals, or the genes, are what determine many…

opportunity to succeed, not receiving the same opportunities as those with superior genes. A world affected by genetic engineering can be completely destroyed when it’s used to achieve perfection and only perfection. The world we live in values individuality; yet society in Gattaca only accepts perfection. The Gattaca facility demonstrates what we as a human race are losing when genetic engineering is used to achieve perfection. It’s this cookie cutter shaped society that expects precision but…

-In a SCNT, the nucleus of an egg cell is removed and it becomes an enucleated egg cell. -The nucleus is removed because the nucleus contains the majority of the genetic information (DNA). -DNA has a double helix structure and it is made from many nucleotides -Nucleotides are made from a nitrogen base (Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, or Thymine), a phosphate group, and a deoxyribose. -The DNA is stored in the nucleus as chromatin, but during cell division the DNA stored as chromatin condense into…

scientific medicine and technology by American poet, fiction writer, and journalist Susan Scutti article The Government Owns Your DNA. What Are They Doing With It? Scutti’s Newsweek article is one of many articles published on genetic testing for newborns in the United States. Genetic testing for neonates dates back to the 1960s when President Kennedy signed…

each other, divided by dissimilar, short sequences of virus DNA. The Cas9 part is a linked nuclease that is aided by a guide RNA, used to cut DNA. The CRISPR/Cas9 system is an immune response in bacteria that works when a virus, releases its genetic code into the bacteria. The virus DNA is stored in the bacteria DNA, so that it can specifically attack that virus, where it to invade again. When the virus attacks the bacteria again, its DNA is detected through an RNA base pairing method. It…

Period 8 October 14th, 2015 Summary: In the article Gene-Edited "Micropigs" to Be Sold as Pets, David Cyranoski talks about a new pet, the “Micropig”, created as a result of gene-editing. Gene-editing is a process where a scientist changes the genetic code of an animal without introducing the genes of a different animal. When creating the “Micropig”, scientists in Shenzhen, China used enzymes to disable certain genes in the fetus of a Bama pig, an already small breed of pig. To make the smaller…

About every cell in you and everyone else's body has the same DNA. DNA is usually located in the cell nucleus (nuclear DNA),however small amounts of DNA can be found in the mitochondria (mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA). The DNA has information stored as a code created by four chemical bases: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T). Each base is connected to a sugar molecule and phosphate molecule. All together it’s called a nucleotide. A nucleotides are set in two long strands…

DNA. E. Coli was the bacteria that was first used to accept the plasmid known as pSC101 which was resistant to certain antibiotics (Genetics and Genomics Timeline). After repetition of this new process they decided to use the genes from the Xenopus laevis toad into E. Coli bacteria. They saw that the bacteria reproduced at an astonishing rate and recorded that the genetic material from the toad passed through different generations of E. Coli bacteria. Soon after these experiments, there were…

rabies we could end up having entire new genetically altered supper virus. That altering the genetic code of rabies could result in a hybrid and possibly a zombie virus. In Ker article he talks about the genetic makeup of a viruses and how it’s possible for the virus to swap certain attributes with another pathogen. Ker calls this Re-assortment, if the virus has enough likeness with another it can swap genetic coded back forth each other. Because of this fact rabies is not a close enough…

even intelligence could all be chosen. Designer babies, or build-a-baby, are typically thought of in context of science fiction, but the possible technology used create them already exist. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), created in 1989, was one of the first iterations of a genetic profiling technology that could literally allow people to ‘design’ their offspring. It works in tandem with in-vitro fertilization (IVF), since fertilization in a laboratory after egg retrieval is needed in…