Reproduction

I became more fascinated with in vitro fertilization after watching the program Little Women L.A. A dwarf couple was wanting to have a child of their own but was having trouble conceiving the natural way so they looked into IVF. After watching the program, I started wondering if two of my friends who want to have a child would benefit from this kind of procedure. After doing some research I discovered there are pros and cons to the procedure. Also, there are a few questions that I do not know…

“Monotremes are the most primitive type of living mammal. They lay eggs and have a single opening (cloaca) for reproduction and elimination of wastes. The female shave no teets but provide milk directly through the skin to their young.”(Dictionary.com) The platypus and the echidna are the only monotremes known in the world. While they are both monotremes, they are both different in many ways. The platypus and the echidna are different by their physical characteristics, their lifestyles, and by…

Abortion has been one of the main topics in America to produce a plethora of controversy, marking the collision of two values: pro-life and pro-choice. While we know that each side produces a wide variety of points as to why each group believes what they do, we still must be omniscient about the life of the child. Someone who is pro-choice would argue that the woman has the right to her own body and what happens to it; however, taking the side of pro-choice disregards the child’s life. This…

Justin Dubler August 31, 2015 Mrs. Werle Period #1-2 AP Biology Summer Assignment Survival of the Sickest Big Idea 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unit of life. Passage 1: “Our genetic makeup has been adapting in response to where we live and what the weather’s like. The food we eat has evolved to cope with the organisms that eat it, and we’ve evolved to cope with that. We’ve looked at the way we’ve evolved to resist or manage the threat posed by specific infectious diseases…

throughout life are judged (ACU, 2016, section 2.1.3). Perspective one maintains the upholding of human dignity and reflects a category 1 and a 2b human dignity way of thinking. Richard F. Storrow embraces literature in his article about therapeutic reproduction (Storrow, 2009) to explain human dignity. Jodi Picoult’s “My Sister’s Keeper” and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ” Never Let Me Go” are the two works of literature that are used to enhance the understanding of saviour siblings and using technology to…

“How about this one: you are simply a distinction—a meme—invented because it was convenient to talk about the parts of the universe that feel pain when hit with a hammer. To the universe, there’s no you . . . or human beings or giraffes or solar systems or galaxies. All those are human-invented distinctions. They are all memes.” Richard Brodie is the author of Viruses of the Mind and within this book he reveals what he believes is the truth about human life, and the root of our being. Two films…

Environmental Control of Sex Determination in Ceratoteris richardii Gametophytes Christine Robson April 14th, 2016 Lab Section 2010: Thursday; 9:30am Professor Gibbons James Madison University Introduction: Sex determination in organisms can be controlled by either the inheritance of sex chromosomes or environmental conditions. In many organisms, the sex of a developing embryo is determined by the inheritance of sex chromosomes that contain genetic information which…

If you think about it, men and women aren’t so different. Will we ever come to closure on our similarities? When you look at a man, you notice his physical appearance. If we look beyond physical appearance, both men and women are built the same way. Although some may believe in Man being on top, women can do anything a man can do. Over 1 billion years ago, sex evolved into single-cell organisms. One eukaryotic cell would come in contact with another eukaryotic cell and if that cell responded,…

Mary Shelly’s novel, The Original Frankenstein, reveals how the desire for knowledge can lead to undetermined consequences. Mary Shelly, important feminist of her time, reveals the submissive role women played in society during her time. The story first holds no strong female character, but rather they quickly enter the story and are immediate dismissed within the same chapter. Many of the female characters suffer through their life quietly until they are killed by Victor’s actions. Since these…

The most used common name is veiled chameleon. As this chameleon species is located in Yemen it is also called the Yemen chameleon, it’s also called the cone-head chameleon because of the shape of its head crest. (Red List) There is controversy over another subspecies of C. Calyptratus called C. c. calcarifer that looks similar in all but coloration however it has been found to be a hybrid with another chameleon Chamaeleo arabicus. (Necas) Physical Description Photo credit: Necas,…