Gestation

being that the surgery being unsuccessful, there isn’t a 100% guarantee to the baby’s recovery. Another risk being the follow up procedure the baby has to undergo once it’s born. The surgery is usually only performed when the fetus had undergone gestation to an infant’s quality of life, which is reduced by a huge factor without surgical…

Pregnancy should be the happiest time during a women’s life but there are times when a women goes through difficulties during their pregnancy and therefore they tend to have high risk pregnancies. Six factors that lead to a high risk pregnancy are the following, gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, chronic hypertension, consuming alcohol and the mother’s age, are some of the factors and conditions that can possibly lead to a high risk pregnancy. Gestational diabetis as we learn in chapter 15…

Bos bison, or the American bison, is the largest land mammal native to North America. It is placed in the same genus, Bos, as the domestic cattle. However, some taxonomists categorize it in the genus Bison, arguing that there is a substantial number of differences to separate it from domestic cattle. The American bison can be separated into two subspecies: B. Bison bison and B. Bison athabascae. B. Bison bison, or the plains bison, is more common in western United States. The plains bison also…

their insatiable reproductive habits for good reason. They breed 3 to 4 times each year. This is because only 15% of baby rabbits make it to their first birthday. So, to ensure that the population grows, rabbits have more babies. The average gestation period for rabbits is 31 days; however, it can vary from 29 to 35 days. Rabbits can have anywhere from one to 14 babies, also called kits, in one litter. An average litter size is six. The largest litter of bunnies ever reported consisted of…

4 Familial Hypercholesterolemia also known as FM, is a disease of extremely high cholesterol levels beginning early in gestation. It is passed along from family member to family member through a genetic mutation. Most commonly on chromosome 19. Many other chromosomes have now been identified as causing familial hypercholesterolemia such as (apo) B-100 (FDB, OMIM 144010)…

twenty-two-year-old single parent, L.A., is referred for genetic counseling by her pediatric nurse practitioner. The patient's three-year-old son was diagnosed with fragile-X-associated mental retardation syndrome. L.A. is currently at fourteen weeks’ gestation with her second pregnancy. The following paper will discuss the gene mutation responsible for fragile-S associated mental retardation and describe how it causes the clinical syndrome of developmental delay, joint hyperextensibility,…

Ranging from anatomical aspects of wisdom teeth and ear muscles to the behavioral palmar grasp reflex and goosebumps, to the molecular pseudogenes, human vestiges are quintessential imperfections of human evolution (Vieth, 2010). Synonymously referred to as evolutionary “leftovers,” vestigial structures are residual features derived from an organism's predecessors that have lost most or all of its ancestral function (“Evidence for Evolution,” 2016). The existence of vestigial structures is often…

The White Tiger is a subspecies of a Tiger, found throughout the Indian subcontinent. Although the population of the White Tiger is humongous, these animals are super rare as their fur color is dependent on a defective and recessive gene that is passed down by their parents. Over the past couple of centuries, the White Tiger has become even more rarer in the wild due to hunting or capturing an exotic pet trade, with there having been no recorded sightings of these majestic beasts for the past 50…

Liu wishes to help those that can not have a baby on their own. In a perfect world, that’s what the artificial wombs would be made for. But Warmflash has a different opinion, he explains, that it is possible that we would just move the gestation process outside the human body. And the pro-life believers would force the women to consider moving the baby outside the female’s body, instead of an abortion. Because of the change in the NICU survival limit, the baby could continue to live outside…

Description: o Physical characteristics of sea otters possess is the fact that they are small animals with short legs which have thick fur and short circular ears which means that they belong to the family Mustelidae[1]. The sea otters have varying fur colors from dark brown to black [6]. They are also highly social animals who travel in groups called rafts; a single raft could range from 10 sea otters to over 100 sea otters [6].  Scientific Name[1]: Enhydra lutis …