Genetic diversity

Regardless of the growth and resting phases of your hair being determined by genetics, a lot of people are able to grow their hair to a length midway down the back, successfully. A maximum length of hair growth of less than one foot would be uncommon. The natural restrictions on hair growth that govern eye lashes and arm hairs and prevent them from growing too much are the basis for these measurements. Dreadlocks are usually seen as being evidence of hair growth that is unlimited, however…

Human disease is something inevitable in the human life cycle and it has created an enormous impact on all living things (Anderson, Salm, Allen & Nester, 2016). Diseases can be caused by a lot of factors from genetics, syndrome development or infection and one way or another, each one of us will experience either one or a combination of all causes. Through the course of time, medical experts and practitioners have invested a lot of time and effort in researching standards and methods in order to…

4. Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction Multiplex PCR is molecular biology technique for amplification of multiple targets in a single PCR reaction. Indeed, multiplex PCR is a modification of conventional or realtime PCR in which two or more different PCR products are amplified within a single reaction (Henegariu, 1997). In a multiplexing assay, more than one target sequence can be amplified using multiple primer pairs in a reaction mixture. As an extension to practical use of PCR, this technique…

The book I read for my Biology book report was, The Double Helix, A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA an autobiography written by James D. Watson. It was released in 1968 and was published by Atheneum Press (US), Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) and is 226 pages. As the title suggests, the book is Dr. Watson’s personal account of the groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA. Biologists already knew that genes were the material responsible for traits getting passed from…

flies was supported by the data. The hypothesis has 70% or higher meaning that the hypothesis is supported by the data. Even though, the hypothesis was supported mathematically, it does not guarantee that it is 100% correct. One thing learned about genetics through the fruit flies problem is that fruit flies also have sex-link traits similarly like the human. For example, the eye colors in fruit flies and the color blindness for the human traits; both sex-link traits are determined by the…

Introduction Many names, gene therapy, gene editing, genetic spell checking, chromosomal correction, targeted gene repair, and chromosomal engineering have been given to a process that could be the cure for certain genetic disorders where only one gene is affected, such as sickle cell anemia or parkinson’s disease. Germline editing would be a more permanent procedure as it would change the certain genetic sequences which would be inherited by future offspring. Scientists are moving closer…

year. Dogs with retinal degeneration are affected from one year to eight years of age and the symptoms progress slowly. With time PRA become worsens. Each PRA disease generally occurs in only one or a few breeds, as demonstrated for PRA with a known genetic basis. PRA-prcd is a notable exception, affecting more than 20 breeds. The first described case of PRA in dogs were in the early twentieth century and today more than 100 breeds have had cases of retinal degeneration. At least 22 mutations in…

Imagine having glowing parts at night in your body. Having the ability to glow in the dark would be fun. There are many things in the world that glow in the dark. For example, glow sticks, lightning, fireworks, mushrooms, bacteria, algae and many more. The Aequorea Victoria Jellyfish is a jelly that glows in the dark. I am more than interested to learn how luminescence works and its processes. The Aequorea Victoria Jellyfish is a jellyfish found in the Puget Sound, Washington State. The…

Some genetic mutations that occur during Meiosis or replication are not passed genetically to offspring. Though there are some genetic disorders that occur during replication or Meiosis that are passed onto offspring not all are. Some non-inheritable disorders are due to random events that occur in reproductive cells. An example of an event in a reproductive cell is the gain or loss of chromosome. All changes in somatic cells however are never heritable. Angelman syndrome is a genetic mutation…

I ‘am writing because I'm trying to convince Andy Vidak I want to vote no for a billing for cloning it is not fair for animals and humans as well it very dangerous. In the article “Arguments for and against creating human clones”how they said,the therapeutic cloning the thing they want to stop because it can be dangerous to everyone because if something goes wrong they can de or something bad happens. If they experiment it or an animal to it can die or something bad happens animals. Also…