Offspring

Fights" for females. They mark their tail and wave/shake it to spread their scent around (insert citation). Caring for their young is stressful for Lemurs but is minimized by timing the birth of their offspring during times when food is abundant. The females sync up their estress so their offspring are born at the same time. New mothers tend not to let unknown or newly transferred males near their children…

Jonathan Swift's, "A Modest Proposal Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public,” was a glaring look at the social injustice plaguing Ireland during the 1700’s. He brought the attention to the issue of starvation by making a ludicrous proposal that the wealthy consume children of the poor and that this will contribute to the feeding and partial clothing needs of the wealthy. This suggests that…

Charles Darwin is very well known for his theories on evolution and most importantly his three principles of evolution by natural selection. Darwin’s first principle is that a variation exists within populations. Some examples of variations include body size, bone structure, tooth size, hair thickness, shape of the rib cage and position of the foramen magnum. In Evolution, Dr. Alice Roberts provides examples of early hominins and how their physical makeups were reconstructed by archeologists…

Also the different allele patterns such as incomplete dominance (a mixture of both parental alleles in the offspring), and codominance (both parental alleles are expressed in the offspring). The different laws of inheritance are also part of the week's concept, such as the law of dominance (in a heterozygous one trait usually the dominant will hide the characteristics of the recessive), the law of…

created to study the human stomach bacteria and new medications, which can help answer questions about the human body itself. By using an enzyme to stop the pigs from growing, the researchers altered their DNA, which would then be passed down to their offspring. This is related to our enzyme unit, where we learned that enzymes can only break down specific substrate. By adding an enzyme that did not match the substrates used for the growth hormone receptors, the pigs growth hormone receptors…

The main purpose in life is to reproduce offspring that will carry on your history after you pass away. Reproduction occurs when a male and female get intimate with each other. The only way that could happen is if they really prefer each other. Preferences for sexual reproduction started with Darwin when he proposed “sexual selection” rather than natural selection (Buss and Barnes, 1986). This occurred when Darwin saw an evolutionary change in peacocks that was not for survival, but to attract…

In most cultures girls have little to no value. Even when female children were not killed at birth, their needs were neglected, particularly if there are limited resources that are needed to ensure the survival of male offspring. In tribal societies, male babies were preferred because males grew up to be hunters and warriors, while young females were seen as a threat because they may attract males from neighboring tribes. In cultures with high male-to-female population ratios…

In biology, altruism refers to behavior by an individual that increases the fitness of another individual while decreasing the fitness of the actor. An example for altruism is ambiguity, which is the quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. They pretty much have some…

Eugenics can give parents the assurance that their children will not have any genetic disorders since only the embryos that are genetically normal are placed into the mother’s uterus. Eugenics can also be used by parents to select the gender of their offspring to avoid sex-linked disorders. Eugenics can also benefit families who have a sick child who requires a stem cell transplant. They can utilize eugenics to match an embryo to the sick child’s tissues and after that child is born, they can…

will tend to have green bodies. The reason behind this is because this trait has a genetic basis. This example shows how common it becomes for this beetle population to develop green bodies. Due to their advantage of not being eaten as much, their offspring become more and more common. If this process continues to happen, all beetles in this population will eventually become green and the brown one’s will become instinct (“Natural Selection”). There is evidence that backs up the example of the…