Gregor Mendel

livestock have been selectively breeding the plants and animals to possibly achieve exact or similar characteristics that the owner wished for from past generations. The discovery of genetics was do to the extensive experimentation and studies of Gregor Mendel on various pea plants. Decades later after Mendel’s brilliant discovery, scientists continued to learn more about genetics and came to uncover the process of altering genes. This process became widely known as genetic engineering. Genetic…

Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, has become one of the most significant discoveries known to humans. The DNA of an individual is located in the nucleus of the cell and it is the same in every cell. DNA is the genetic makeup of an individual and it is unique to them, meaning, no one has the same genetic code of adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. Every person and living thing have a unique genetic code and sequence of the four chemical bases. DNA has been evolving since the beginning of time…

Religion has undoubtedly touched many aspects of our lives, medicine becoming one of the most discussed in modern times. Religion has provided society with countless advances in our understanding of the human body and the conditions that impair it, making religion one the most valuable assets to medicine. Despite all of the advances religion has provided it is dualy important to note how religion has become one of the major burdens on modern medicine. As the 21st century continues to bring rapid…

The thought of eugenics has been around ever since Gregor Mendel first started cross-breeding plants to get the best product. But would it be taken too far if eugenicists were able to manipulate human DNA? The ability to genetically edit humans is desirable (just think about how desirable plastic surgery has become), but it would come with many consequences, some that make the advance seem unnecessary. Let us take a look into similar applications and a few of the flaws of human engineering…

From Dolly, the sheep, to Mendel's pea plants, the history of genetic engineering has always been a controversial topic. However, what everyone needs to realize is that it is all around the world. Dolly was the first genetically engineered sheep, and Mendel was the first person to understand the concept of cross breeding to manipulate the genes of organisms. Genetic engineering has always been controversial. The biggest reason that people say that genetic engineering is controversial, is because…

Meiosis is a type of cell division that occurs in sexually reproductive organisms that leads to the production of reproductive cells called gametes. The process of meiosis begins with a diploid (2n) cell, which has a full amount of chromosomes. For example, in humans, the diploid number is 46. Meiosis gives the end product of four haploid (n) gametes, which have half of the amount of DNA that their parent cells have. In humans, this haploid number is 23. The process of meiosis has many steps…

rapidly. Democracy grew in several countries in Europe and the Americas. This led to people demanding health as a human right. Innovative scientists advanced forward despite resistance from the clergy, some examples include Charles Darwin and Gregor Johann Mendel. As technology developed, wars became more devastating, causing mass injuries, which required new surgical and medical…

1) Centrioles are a paired feature of animal mitotic spindles that protrude away from the centrisome of cells and are primarily tasked with the creation of microtubules. The microtubules give way to mitotic spindles, which play a vital role in both mitosis and cytokinesis as they give cilia and flagellum the ability to generate motion and they ensure both newly formed cells contain paired centrioles during the later stages of cell division. Kinetochores are protein structures that produce…

There are different forms and views of genetic engineering along with some pros and cons about the use of genetic engineering. The importance of genetic engineering is to find ways to make things better and to explore new things. Genetic engineering is basically tampering with the arrangement of amino acids in dna to change it or make something new. Interesting fact is that eighty percent of dna in a human body is unknown. The pros of genetic engineering are the agricultural growth and…

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the Kingdom Plantae (Plant, 2018). Kingdoms are the main divisions which scientists use to classify all living things on Earth. Biologists have discovered 500 000 species of plants, of which 250 000 are angiosperms and are dominant in plant study (Encyclopedia, n.d.). Seeds are a small embryonic plant, which is enclosed in a small covering, called a seed coat, with stored food inside until they can obtain their energy…