Genotype

Hollie Stansbury Psychology 4003-63577 Writing Assignment # 4 Throughout centuries, gifted and talented people have been recognized by their societies, however formal education of gifted and talented students did not emerge until the late 19th century. At that time, the educational programs for students who would be considered gifted today were primarily modifications of, or additions to, the existing educational programs. The most recent federal definition of gifted and talented…

Rett Syndrome Report Cathy Qian Clinical features Rett Syndrome (RTT) is a genetic disease which presents with a seemingly normal development up until 1-3 years of age. The disease is only present in females, as it is an X-linked dominant disorder and males with a defective X chromosome die prematurely. It is rare, with an estimate of 1:10000 - 1:15000 live female births. (4) This is when Stage II begins, with deterioration of mental processes. The rate of deterioration varies. Symptoms…

intestine. NOD2/CARD15 is a polymorphic gene involved in the innate immune system. Of its more than 60 variations, 3 play a role in 27% of patients with Crohn’s disease, primarily in those with ileal disease. Subsequent studies suggest that CARD15 genotype is associated not only with the onset of disease but also with its natural history. A study in a German and Norwegian cohort showed that patients with 1 of the 3 identified risk alleles for CARD15 were more likely to have either ileal or…

Did research on what males and females look like. We observed the frozen flies. On the first week we used fly nap as an anesthetic for the flies and waiting for them to fall asleep. We sexed the flies and put 10 male and 10 female into a tube. We provided them with food and a sponge to allow oxygen to flow in and out of the tube. The males were Wild type and the Females were type C. After one week we came back to several pupa larva and parents that were active. We once again sedated them with…

over reverence, of molding over beholding” (9). In other words, Sandel asserts that the eugenics itself symbolizes the hubris and burden. It does not justify genetic modification saying new eugenics does not force people to choose and discard fixed genotype. If gene modification would become the mainstream, more and more people would take advantage of it. Consequently, even if those who does not agree with gene modification, they feel compelled to participate in a race not to abandon their…

Since the publication of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” in 1859, natural selection has been widely accepted by the scientific community as the engine that drives evolution, or the change of frequency of heritable characteristics in a population over time. Natural selection results in the survival of the fitter individuals of a given population, and therefore the increase in frequency of the genes that produced the adaptive phenotype. For natural selection to occur, there are three…

Race is socially constructed through laws, media and popular culture. In different cultures, humans have conceptualized what is feminist and masculinist. The theory of social constructivism is more familiar to me because I believe that cultural context in which a person lives or behaves can determine how people will perceive gender. Many studies have concluded that there is no biological basis for race, but still many legal institutions use biological arguments about race. From my previous…

shape of abdomen and size, makes of Drosophila melanogaster an effective organism to study. In Drosophila melanogaster, the males do not go through crossing over during meiosis, which allows certain genes to be easier to track since only parental genotypes are passed from female parent to their male offspring. A crossover is the basis of genetic information exchange, which occurs when homologous chromosomes pair up on the basis of sequence similarity in meiosis I and chiasmata is formed between…

on media, obesity is not just a problem of unhealthy lifestyle but in fact influenced by genetic factor as well. Genetic factor is believed to attribute 40 – 70% in the development of obesity (Shawky & Sadik, 2012). In other words, environment, genotypes and the association of these two factors play roles in the phenotype expression, which, in this case, is obesity. With regards to environmental influence, obesity can be the result of many external factors such as energy imbalance caused by…

It could be seen as an implication that some genotypes are inherently inferior to others. This raises several ethical issues with numerous groups. Some groups feel that every conceived foetus must be carried to the full extent of its term by the mother, and they see a move towards the use of CRISPR in…