Phenotype

Desmond and Emirbayer’s article attempts to elucidate the configuration of race and racial dominance through the lenses of recent theoretical innovations. As oppose to the then predominant perspective on race that portraits it as a natural phenomenon, these authors describe race as a dynamic, and symbolic social construct that evolves and changes historically. These transformation to be understood must be informed by the influence of other social constructs such as ethnicity and nationhood.…

Elite Performers: Genetics or Training Researchers have been aiming to further their knowledge about training for sport and if it can elicit an elite performance, or are elite performers born with their abilities. Studies have shown an array of results but one factor that most can agree on is the elite performer is unique in his/her abilities. People are born with many genetic differences that affect the way he/she will respond to diet, exercise, training, and performance. These…

kill you. Heritability is heritable traits you get from your parents and grandparents. All genetic influence comes from your biological parents. Heritability is estimated by comparing individual phenotype variation among differently related people in a population. Heritability measures the fraction of phenotype variability that can be given to genetic variation. How heritability affects me is I have the same hair color as everybody in the family. Everybody in my family is tall including myself.…

treatment of antibiotic resistance, history of foreign travel, and an increase exposure to raw milk, poultry and farm animals will be a risk factors for c. jejuni infection and antibiotic resistant infections. Aim 3: Determine if multidrug resistant phenotypes confer phenotypic advantages for c. jejuni, which would be associated with virulence characteristics such as, transmission, presentence, and…

author explains how the political commitment often precedes racial designation; whereas in the US racial designation most often precedes political commitment. It also states a debate about indigeneity and the construction of identities outside the phenotype, which poses a new discussion on the factors that influence the identity process of ethnically diverse groups. The groups that the author describes were originally perceived by him as Afro-descendant or mixed-race, these communities built…

Introduction: Lactase is an enzyme that helps to digest lactose, a sugar found in many dairy products (U.S National Library of Medicine 2013). This enzyme is made through instructions provided by the LCT gene. Lactase is primarily produced and found in the cells that line the walls of the small intestine. At the brush border, an area where microvilli absorb nutrients from food as it passes by, lactose breaks down lactose into simpler sugars like glucose through a hydrolysis reaction (Biology…

updated online catalog of human genes and genetic disorders and traits, with primary focus on the molecular relationship between the genetic variation and phenotypic expression (Using OMIM, n.d.). Therefore, OMIM focuses on the relationship between phenotype and genotype. OMIM is used primarily by physicians, professionals concerned with genetic disorders, genetics researchers, and advanced science and medical students. The OMIM database is open to the public users seeking information about a…

McCurdy 205).” In Brazil, “tipos” stand for a multitude of physical variations that differ from the arbitrary categories created by Americans. Brazilians have a multiplicity of classifications that fall within a wide spectrum of skin colors and phenotypes. This is illustrated, by the following classifications found in Brazil: “1) loura (whiter-than-white, straight blonde hair, blue or green eyes, light skin color, narrow nose, and thin lips, 2) branca (light skin color, eyes of any color, hair…

prevalent form of ASD for testing potential therapeutics for the syndrome. We performed the 5-CSRT task that requires rodent’s active attention to perform the task, thus detecting the underlying attentional deficit. Our results confirmed the PMS phenotype in the rat model, as observed by their higher latencies on performing trials and were similar to the attentional deficits evidently observed even in PMS patients. The insignificant difference in the reward collection time demonsrates that there…

1. What is the difference between mitosis and meiosis? Define each term, and then explain how each process contributes differently to the conception and growth of a zygote. The two ways cell division can occur are through mitosis and meiosis. In mitosis, a cell produces two clones of itself, each with the same number of chromosomes. In meiosis, a cell will produce four cells called gametes through the process of spermatogenesis and oogenesis. Gametes are most commonly known as sperm cells in…