Marine biology

Genetic diseases are still a concern, despite advances in medicine. We know little about them. Inheriting normal or altered gene is always random phenomenon, entirely independent from us. Sometimes a genetic disease does not appear in any generation. There are also situations that the child is the first person in the family affected by a genetic condition (neither parent is a carrier).If the parents are healthy, there is a small probability that their next child will be affected by the same…

Being able to craft a new organ out of a patient’s own cells that is guaranteed to be a perfect match and could be made to order, sounds like a beautiful, unmanageable fantasy especially to those like me who have watched a loved one go through the never-ending process of getting an organ transplant. Bioprinting could one day turn that seemingly impossible dream into a reality and completely revolutionize the world of organ transplants. I can imagine the years of my father having to deal with the…

have indeed the power to better the lives of patients. This has sparked my interest in wanting to dedicate myself to the medical society. As I study my A Levels, I have found Chemistry and Biology to be particularly useful to support my pursuit of medicine. Being inquisitive in nature, both Chemistry and Biology have provided me with extensive knowledge of biological systems. Meanwhile, a superb understanding of Mathematics has enabled me to make decisions logically and be competent with…

psychologists and sociologist claim environmental factors are responsible. Keep in mind, three factors are responsible for gender development that includes biology, natural selection, and the environment. While each of these approaches has made their contribution to gender development, caution should be practiced…

Evolution, as defined in (what is evolution), is change in the characteristics of living organisms over generations. Natural selection is used as a mechanism for evolution; organisms that are “picked” by natural selection evolve and pass on their genes. Drastic changes in environment, such as the nuclear apocalypse in The Day After, or the frigid blizzard-hurricanes in The Day After Tomorrow, can alter natural selection and by relation evolution. All catastrophes- natural or manmade- have a…

fruit fly (drosophila melanogaster) to the offspring and we are able to do the test precision of the 3:1(monohybrid) and 9:3:3:1(Dihybrid) ratios. The model of fruit fly (drosophila melanogaster) is a really great model to work with in the field of biology more precisely (genetics) because it an organism that has been used many times to show scientific principles. We use fruit fly (drosophila melanogaster) as our model in this experiment because they are easy to get (cheap). They are small in…

Although people develop and change until the day they die, a vast amount of human development happens throughout the first few years of life, particularly infancy. An inseparable combination of both nature and nurture shape the baby and affect the infant throughout their whole life. In nature we see that the parent’s genes control what the child will look like and whether they will have any inherited, genetic diseases or dispositions. Additionally, habits during pregnancy, such as smoking or…

In Sigrid’s article, “Why should donating an organ cost so much?” he makes the argument that the Transplant Act set is doing more harm than good. The finical complications in organ donation is an important issue today because there are so many lives affected. The process of donating organs affects not only the patient’s lives, but those lives of the family and friends. Lingering thoughts of worst case scenarios and rejection are just half of the turmoil that the patients, friends, and families…

Evolution is a theory while it also is a fact. Facts are the data while theories explain those facts. Just because something is a fact does not mean it has a complete certainty, it just has enough data and evidence to verify a phenomenon. Darwin continually emphasized the difference between the fact of evolution and the theory of natural selection. In the 19th century when Darwin published his book On the Origin of Species the theory of natural selection became quickly accepted, besides a few…

1. Darwin understood that variations in the finch species pointed towards the idea that variation is the origin of evolution. Peter Boag continued to work tentatively alongside the Grants by extracting blood samples and DNA from the finches in his lab, then giving the Grants the data he would find. Boag and Hans Gelter have been running these various DNA tests on the finches provided by the Grants and hope to find the finch that created the different variations of finches along the Galapagos…