to the specific physical traits. In the biological setting, it is a term that essentially was used in general taxonomy. This taxonomy use was initiated more so during the 19th century to classify the different genes as defined by the population’s phenotypes. The definition further grew and advanced as the Europeans ventured the various parts of the world and met more different people, they focused and analyzed their different cultural, physical as well as social practices. The slave trade era,…
organization and function but also about regulation and gene expression. So today, with all this new technology ready in our hands we are able to mutate genes in a targeted way and obtain the desired change in the sequence involving, developing the phenotype change required by the…
There have not been many things which have taken up most of my mind in the past few years other than Genetics. Ever since I attended Dr. Lander’s lecture MIT 7.00x Introduction to Biology, I have been hooked onto the subject. He talked primarily about genetics as he is a geneticist, but attributed to other aspects of biology as well. He taught a college level course, and when I took it, I was still in high school, but regardless, I understood most of the genetic aspect of it. It feels that it is…
I want to become a physician-scientist because I want to work at the interface between basic science research, which has the power to elucidate new knowledge, and clinical medicine, which has the ability to translate scientific discoveries to a deliverable form that can directly help the patients in need. For three years, I studied the role of tumor microenvironment on breast cancer metastasis in Dr. Semenza’s laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. As I studied the…
Lately, I have been struggling to grasp the moral absolutism found in Kant’s philosophy on freedom, morality, and goodness. His ideas rest on the notion that humans are rational, autonomous beings by nature who have the “capacity for reason [that] is bound up with [the] capacity for freedom...[which] sets us apart from mere animal existence” (108). Our greatness as a human species comes from the fact that we have the ability to make moral choices independently of any inner initialization or…
There many chracteristics, such as the genotype or phenotype, lower income family, a family with weak social structure, and the absence of a father in the household. I may come from a family that were all about keeping the family together, but as everyone got older; they started to go about their own way.…
is possessed and nurture is refers to the environmental things that impact who we will become of what we are. Our nature is most likely what we may look like; like our hair color, eye color, diseases and anything that is biological basically the phenotype. For nurture it really means “product of your…
Huntington’s Chorea, more commonly known as Huntington’s disease, is a progressive hereditary neurodegenerative disorder that presents in mid-life, affecting an individual’s cognitive, emotional and motor abilities (Warby, Graham, & Hayden, 2014). Huntington’s disease was named after an American Physician by the name of George Huntington, who first documented the disease in 1872. In his findings, he described the disease as Hereditary chorea. In Greek terminology, the word Chorea means “to…
The intervention strategies the clinician will use to target Amanda’s specific language weakness are narratives and discourse. The client’s teacher main concerns were the areas of expressive language skills as well as limited vocabulary. The clinician will target narratives and discourse to increase the client’s expressive language skills. Research by McCabe and Bliss, supports that children should have the ability to provide with a minimum of two events in a narrative. The clinician can…
Coevolution is the process by which two or more closely interacting species evolve in response to one another. Darwin is attributed with first hypothesizing coevolution in “On the Origin of Species” published in 1859; since that time, coevolution has become one of the cornerstones of modern evolutionary biology. The species that lead to the discovery of coevolution was the Angraecum Sesquipedale, a variety of orchid with a spur extending over 30cm long. When Darwin received a sample from…