History of biology

dealing with human genetic engineering. There are many different uses for genetic engineering, yet human genetic engineering is to unethical to continue. To fully understand why human genetic engineering shouldn’t be allowed one needs to understand the history of genetic engineering, and how it is actually done. After that you can better grasp some of the ethical issue presented by human genetic engineering, which I will talk about last. When first starting out genetic engineering wasn’t…

When it comes to talking about controversial topics such as politics or religion it is no surprise that people will not see eye to eye on the topic. Therefore, it’s no surprise that gene patenting, the act of patenting genes of DNA to be legally owned by private firms or universities, is also a controversial topic that others, including authors John E. Calfee and Michael Crichton seem to have different opinions on. Crichton, who is against the idea of gene patenting believes the research is…

Purpose: To observe different species of living protists in pond water under the microscope. Taking note of their size, movements, and characteristics to classify the different types of protists from applying previous knowledge of protists. Materials: The materials in this lab that will be needed are a microscope, slide, coverslips, a pipette, and a dish of pond water. Procedure: Prepare a slide by using the pipette to apply two drops of pond water on a slide and properly place a…

In this enthralling, enlightening book, Ronald M. Green’s Babes by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Design explores the potential promise and threat in the innovation of genetic engineering. Babies by Design offers several elements of the complicated subject: it presents an eloquent description of the sophisticated technology and science, it clearly recaps the reasonable arguments for and against numerous exercises of biotechnology, and it relates the ideas of science fiction to that of the…

Due to the wide variety of plants and animals throughout the world, and their similarities and differences is what proves evolution, according to Chapter 4: The Geography of Life, the biogeography can only be explained by evolution of all the, “diversity of life on continents and islands,” (Coyne, 2009, p. 109). Even though, this idea of evolution is different than previous chapters; must be remembered, that Jerry Coyne is explaining the whole theory, so they are all connected and part of the…

The fish and other aquatic animals will survive if they have sunlight,oxygen, and plants the producer is the plants,the consumers are the fish and shrimp,and lastly the decomposer is the snail.The lamp acts as if it was the sun and produces energy and a light source. And the plants will make oxygen so the fish can breathe making them be able to survive for a certain amount of time. Then they will have everything they need to survive for a few weeks or maybe longer.Because in order for them to…

On Point Interview Review The interview between Tom Ashbrook and his guest Kevin Esvelt, a Harvard Medical School graduate with a Ph.D. in biochemistry, enlightens society on the many developing ways in which scientists can change evolution within the ecosystem. This being said, gene technology is stated as the range of tests involved with comprehending gene expressions, acquiring genetic variation, and being able to modify genes to result in being able to transfer those genes to a new host.…

For this lab we conducted a population genetics study on the frequency of wild and apterous flies within a small population of fruit flies. The fruit fly Drosophila works well for genetic and evolutionary geared studies because they have a relatively short generation time but are intricate enough to reveal some biological principles that are parallel to many different kinds of eukaryotic organisms. When exposed to artificial selection in laboratory experiments, fruit flies have experienced…

Through time human activity has led to environmental changes which have caused natural selection to evolve. The theory of natural selection proposes that nature changes species by selecting traits. Charles Darwin sometimes uses the phrase "survival of the fittest" to describe natural selection. Does evolution through natural selection produce "better" organisms in an absolve sense? Are we climbing Scala Naturae? Natural selection produce better organism than before. Fro an example the…

The subject of science has always been an interest of mine, more specifically biology. My love for this subject began to develop during my sophomore year of high school and ever since, the human body has intrigued me. Anatomy has always been a strong point throughout my education, as it came so easily to me. It is extremely fascinating that humans are so similarly structured, being that each and every human contains the same outline. Although humans are internally similar, externally we are able…