Genetics

What is genetic testing? Genetic testing is a scientific and medical testing where scientists (change scientists to something else) identify for changes in a person’s genes, chromosomes or protein. It is considered when someone wants to identify health risks, allowing the doctor to make recommendations to their health and decrease their chance in developing the certain disease, or to test to see if the person has other genetic conditions, which would impact their chance of passing on or…

person’s life in the way they could never imagine, but others aren’t as critical. One of the non life-threatening genetic mutations is color blindness. I believe that the expression “color blindness” can be quite deceiving. Almost all color ”blind” people can still see colors, but just see them not as accurately. Their perception of the colors are also restricted. Color blindness is a genetic condition in how the light-senstive cells originated in the retina react to colors. There are cells in…

be chosen. A problem is these genetic techniques are dangerous, unethical, and will cause societal problems. However, there could be regulations by the government that doctors could perform…

having a law that requires mandatory genetic screening of both parents in preparation of having children or if the parents give birth to a child with genetic disorder include: • Detect susceptibility to a genetic disorder • Reduce medical cost through prevention • Genetic test results can help parents make decisions about having children or terminate a pregnancy • Promptly diagnose of existing genetic disease • Newborns and their families with an identified genetic disorder will be offered…

As “reading” our genomes becomes more available, I think each person should have complete privacy over their genetic information. It’s their personal information, and it’s their right to share it if they’d like, but no one else besides immediate family should have the right to use their genetic information. Immediate family should be allowed rights too, because it could be helpful in making important decisions or in emergencies. Employers and insurers should absolutely not be able to reject…

Lucas, Beverly D., Ellen Wright Clayton, Bruce R. Korf, and Susan Richards. "Genetic Testing: What It Means Today." Patient Care (1998): 70-79. 15 Nov. 1998. Web. 9 Nov. 2016. This article has a very strong argument on what happens psychologically after a genetic test has taken place. In Lucas D. Beverly, Ellen Wright Clayton, Bruce R. Korf, and Susan Richards article “Genetic testing: What it means today” they talk about how psychiatrist 's help patients through their process of the very eye…

pool. The genetic make up or gene pool of the specie going through modification. While the alleles go through the change, so do the traits of the individual. There are mechanisms that are responsible for the change of alleles. The four mechanisms are mutation, gene flow, genetic drift, and natural selection. Every living thing has a different genetic make up or sequence, which can be expressed through how it looks or behaves. The differences between these expressions are called genetic…

Genetically engineering Babies Genetically engineering our children could potentially be a popular thing of the future. As this theory develops there are two different opinions on this situation. There are scientist who are completely for genetic engineering and there are scientist completely against it. So far this is still in testing but it very well could be a normal concept right around the corner. Genetically engineering means that they modify or change genes in a zygote (fertilized egg).…

dilemmas. Genetic testing is a relatively new and rapidly emerging field (Fulda and Lykens, 2004) and has caused some ethics conversations over the past couple of years. Genetic testing is a form of a medical test that identifies changes in genes and or chromosomes. These tests are usually done because parents are curious whether or not their offspring will be a carrier or have a specific genetic disease. If it is determined that the offspring will have a genetic disease, this is when the…

All cell organisms have this chain of nucleotides that give them a unique coding that helps everything differ from one another. Whether within plant or animal cells, these coding strands contain our genetic information. The creation of our genetic codes derives from a mixture of our parent genetic codes. These codes we contain are called DNA, also known as deoxyribonucleic acid. These DNA strands carry all our information. Skin color, eye color, body shape, hair type, etc. This creates us…