Mutant

Gregor Mendel found out that factors determine individual traits. There was no specific way to know the outcome of an offspring. He transformed art into a science by using agricultural breeding. Instead of looking at the pea plant as a whole, Mendel focused on its individual traits. Mendel concluded that each alternative form of a trait is specified by alternative forms of a gene. To follow the inheritance of genes from parent to child, Mendel first needed to be sure which genes each parent…

This movie depicts this destruction by showing the Statue of Liberty as being destroyed. (History, n.d.) 1970 "Beneath the Planet of the Apes"-The astronaut in the movie is faced with dealing with human mutants that were a result of nuclear warfare (History, n.d.) 1971 "Escape from the Planet of the Apes"-This is where one male, one female, and their child come back to earth. At first they had to be hid by the humans in fear that the humans would want…

An American geneticist, Hermann J. Muller, was the first to discover the existence of telomere in 1938. He was irradiating Drosophila melanogaster with X-ray to produce mutation at the Drosophila’s chromosomal ends and he observed no mutants with deletions or inversions during the experiment (Muller, 1938). He suggested the presence of a protective cap, known as telomere, at the chromosomal end. It wasn’t a year later; Barbara McClintock - a cytogeneticist from the University of Cornell…

Jing-mei depicts her change similar to “transforming like a werewolf”. Such a metaphor displays how she feels like a completely different being from the one that dwelled in the San Francisco (par. 4). She illustrates that the rushing feeling is like “a mutant tag of DNA suddenly triggered”, which indicates that the Chinese roots were always present but Jing-mei needed to experience China firsthand before allowing herself to feel Chinese (par. 4). As the plot of the story mostly revolves around…

Modern science-fiction films vividly illustrate modern social issues and current attitudes toward the future. Based on the short story “Super Toys Last All Summer Long,” “Artificial Intelligence” takes place in the end of the 21st century at the United States of America. Spielberg 's film raises many questions: foremost among them, what does it mean to be a person? Degree of personhood is the status of how much a thing is a person depending on certain qualities. This theory concerns with…

changing the way of the tweens of today. Media has a way of changing a perspective at a childhood to tweens. The main ways media is having an influence on tweens begins with children’s toys, such as Barbie, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Media has a certain way of changing a young child into a tween that wants so much more. Hymowitz (2011) states, “children with dreams of teen sophistication and tough independence began with Barbie” (Hymowitz 103). Since there…

On that note, one of the most things I would like to quote from the book is that, “white-skinned people are actually black-skinned mutants who lost the ability to produce significant amounts of melanin” (Moalem 55). I chose this quote simply because I find the topic to be fascinating. I love dermatology, and I find that the way Moalem phrased this sentence is perfect. It shows that…

Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film, Stalker, casts a shadow over the present, which is what most pieces of science fiction do. The reason why the film is still so resonating to this day is because it depicts how deeply troubled people are by events that are yet to occur. In the matter of Stalker, the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 was what had not yet occurred. After the accident, however, the nomenclature of Tarkovsky became suitable in describing the aftermath because the real world eerily…

alike. One effective biomarker is the use of plasma amino acid analysis since mice with SOD G93A have a change in their plasma amino acids. When mice without SOD1 G93A were studied along with mice who had the mutation they noticed a change in the mutant mice’s amino acid concentrations specifically: cysteine,…

All through the Cold War, the United States depended on nuclear weapons to not only avert an attack by the Soviet Union and its allies but also to prevent the eruption of a global war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Cold War rivalry drew the United States into a drawn out engagement with world affairs, unprecedented in the country’s history, that proceeds to the present day. The stakes of the Cold War were perilously high. Nuclear war, which jeopardized the survival of human…