John Francis Dodge

Discoveries in the field of genetics have given the world hope for a brighter future. With promises of disease eradication, increased intelligence, and longer lifespans, it is no wonder that people believe that this altering our genetic code is the solution to all of our problems. However, with all of these potential benefits, there come potential dangers. A new scientific breakthrough has come our way. Referred to as CRISPR, this new technology is the easiest, cheapest, and most reliable way of…

The Structure of DNA Somewhere in someone’s brain a curiosity is born that starts a wanting to find an answer. Not everybody gets these feelings to act upon their feelings of wanting to find out an answer, but for some people it does. An Austrian monk, Greg Mendel was a for-father of finding “basic patterns of inheritance.” He started doing his scientific experiments around 1854 in his gardens researching “the transmission of hereditary traits in plant hybrids” (Bio, a Biography of Gregor…

Saint Francis performed many acts of charity and service to the people he encountered within his lifetime. His life was based upon serving other. Although in his early life he did not care for the needs of others, as he grew older he saw the importance and worth of every life. Every person that Saint Francis encountered mattered to him. He saw the greatness in all creation as he truly believed that all creation was God’s creation. He lived out his life like Jesus did, in a life of poverty and…

A gene is the fundamental unit of heredity. Genes determine the genotype and phenotype of living entities. Compared to the past, genetic research has advanced a great deal. For many centuries, it was believed that God had created the human species; however, due to the researches and experiments done by scientists like Hippocrates, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel… it is now accepted that the true force behind evolution, is the adaptation of the genetic code to the environment. As the…

Gabriela A. Hernandez Mrs.Ayub IB Biology 29 October 2017 Falsification of the Davson-Danielli Model of the cell membrane Since the discovery of the cell, the scientific community has been fascinated by its various structures and functions. One of the most important structures being the cell membrane, which after being discovered in 1855, played a key role in research regarding cell membranes. After the discovery its discovery , many scientists put out data regarding the cell membrane…

Have you thought about how one chromosome in our genes can change the way we are today as we? Even though Knoepfler and Enriquez both have differing views of CRISPR and gene-editing using pathos, ethos, and logos, Knoepfler has a more suitable demeanor with him being in the field of science and having experience in his end which makes it more approachable and understandable. Paul Knoepfler talks about the ethical dilemma on designer babies while Juan Enriquez explains the reprogram of life and…

Selection of a child's genetic characteristics has affected nation's worldwide. This moral-ethical issued topic has transformed many people's opinions on whether to alter their future children's genetic makeup or not. Designer babies started off as a science fiction concept. However, due to rapid increases in technology advances, genetic selection has become possible all over the world. Now when, where, and how did it start is the question as of right now. Genetic Selection is the process by…

1) A. In 1947 Francis Crick began working with Max Perutz at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. He began working on a new sector of the Laboratory where X-ray crystallography was being used in order to study protein structure. Crick's thesis project at the university was on X-ray diffraction of proteins. Crick then met John Watson and together they solved the structure of DNA using available X-ray data at the time and model building. After discovering the double helix model, Crick and…

England was under Queen Elizabeth’s I’s reign under the 1590s. She had been on the thrown since 1558 and kept the crown until her death in 1603. The era she ruled is known as the Elizabethan era, and it was a period of relative peace, commercial and imperial expansions and growing national confidence. But it was also a period that was overshadowed by the on-going religious resistance that were often extreme, sometimes violent. It was a tough life in London during the 1500s. We may not know if…

As if flying cars were the future in the past, we are now looking at the possibility of giving birth to children with the genetic codes that we have chosen. This gives us new goals for our future as well as a new direction for us to point our technology to. A world with designer babies would be very much different than our present one. With designer babies we open the possibility of having a chance at finding life outside of earth, advance in our technology, which would even introduce the…