Genetics

Why Genetic Enhancement is Unethical The growing desire for the perfect child and increased pressure and expectations from society have pushed parents toward genetic enhancement--the altering of their child’s genes for the purpose of intellectual and/or physical advances. The scientific advancements, making genetic enhancement possible have resulted in a conflicted society; some people support the new technology, while others argue it should not be used. Philosopher Michael J. Sandel critiques…

Reserve genetics is a tool used to identify the functionality of a known gene sequence or a gene family by genetic editing to generate the mutant phenotype. As it is done in a direction from gene to phenotype, which is opposite to ‘forward genetics’, hence named as reverse genetics. As the whole genome sequences are much more accessible nowadays with various genome sequencing technologies developed. This enables modifying a known gene, and to create a known mutation. The mutated gene might then…

The Human Genetic Modification, a new futuristic medical tool, comes as a blessing but also comes as a curse too. Can we even handle this gift that was bestowed to us for its usage? That, however, would be answered; as Opposition. In the articles, “Understanding Genetic (diseases)”, Dr. Maggie Pearce, a Geneticist, stated, “[Broken Genes] Too hard to fix someone’s broken genes”. Likewise, to believers, human genetic modification comes as a blessing to few dozen people, but the thoughts itself…

the importance of Genetics in health care early in my time studying Medicine and later have gained profound knowledge of it as well as Cell Biology and Molecular Biology through in-depth Biomedical studies. However, it is during my current study on the genetic disorder Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) when my passion for the Laboratory Genetics and Genomics was lighted. My passion for the Laboratory Genetics and Genomics was lighted while I am conducting current studies on the genetic disorder…

One result of random genetic drift and gene substitution is mutant alleles, however the probability that these mutations become fixed in a population is not solely dependent on the advantageous nature of the allele, rather the probability of fixation is determined by the allele frequency, the selective advantage or disadvantage, and the effective population size. The probability of fixation for a particular allele is demonstrated by the equation where probability is equal to 1 minus the…

Especially with genetics relating to looks, there is bound to be some degree of conflict. In concern to diseases and illnesses, genetic manipulation and selection could be beneficial. However, natural processes need to be considered. The earth is already becoming overpopulated with people. If genes are selected that decrease the number of people born with diseases, then the number of people would just continue to grow. Genetic manipulation most likely wouldn’t be available…

When talking about genetics one is referring to the biological constitutional implicants of which sees us being defined by specified characterististics such as through physical and behavioural implicants. In reference to Michael and his lifestyle his physical and behavioural implicants can be found to be absorbed and encouraged by those who are found within his home environment. As children we mimic attitudes and perceptual beliefs into our own classification to make them unique to one’s own…

from copying errors whenever DNA is being transcribed. There are several characters within the same species and each individual has the potential to bring up new ones during reproduction. The appearance of new characters involves a change in the genetic information. This change occurs through mutations. They may affect all the genes of an individual. Some mutations will lead to the death of an individual; those are said to be lethal. Others will express themselves with little to no consequences…

Genetic Engineering Out of all the discussions we participated in this quarter, the one that interested me the most was the discussion on the dangers and benefits of human cloning and genetic engineering. In the discussion we saw two sides of an issue, Kenneth Kosik argued that there are a lot of risks involved in tinkering with the human genome. If we intend to move forward with it, he felt that we need to proceed slowly and cautiously. Robert Sapolsky, on the other hand, was making the…

This is considered a miracle for geneticists trying to eradicate genetic mutations, such as sickle cell anemia. However, because scientists do not know the exact location and function of all DNA sequences, by removing or altering a mutation, scientists could actually be doing more harm than good. A sequence that scientists…