Reproduction

friendship, and help each other in order to survive starvation, establish a colony, and reproduction. In human and non-human species, the ancestors formed friendship/alliance even though there were some costs to them such as fighting for your friends and sharing resources. Evolved psychological mechanisms (EPM) along with other useful traits were passed down to solve a specific problem of survival or reproduction of a species. In the paper there will be discussions of ant queens form alliances…

I attended the science speaker series on February 27th, when Laurie Mackenzie spoke on the current scientific developments and obstacles relating to the ethics of human reproduction and IVF. She gave a brief overview of how eggs are fertilized, detailing that the lifespan of an egg after ovulation is 12-14 hours, whereas sperm can live for up to 7 days, meaning that the perfect sperm must reach the egg that wants it quite quickly, or else the egg will wither and die, resulting in nothing other…

Due to the modern accomplishments in research, couples can now preselect the sex of their offspring before the child is conceived. Ironically, with this massive breakthrough, there are criticism towards the idea of choosing a child’s gender. While this topic may be an interesting debate, parents should not be allowed to choose the sex of their child. There is some favorable outcome with giving parents the option of choosing, but there are even more consequences that arise from this topic. One…

critiquing the representation of assisted human reproduction in films by analyzing the movie Baby Mama from a sociological perspective. 2. Summary This film is based…

The Catholic Intellectual Tradition: A Dynamic View on Sex and Sexuality The Catholic Church is commonly perceived as being static and reluctant to change. This notion of an unchanging tradition causes the misconception that God excludes certain groups of people because of the judgement that they are living a life of sin. This misinterpretation is producing immense controversy among various groups of people and is causing many to either leave the Catholic Church, or discouraging them from…

females, the control, to test if the availability of water in the adult phase would affect the male’s success of offspring. The class collected no data that suggested water availability made a significant difference in the success of the male’s reproduction; the average number of eggs counted in the watered dishes were 56.8 and in the dry dishes it was 31. The average of hatchlings…

constantly spread their genes to have a more efficient impact on the populace. The average lifespan is 70 years old in a conventional method so genetic offspring comes into the frame. Since life expectancy is low for humans they rely on sexual reproduction to pass on their traits to the next generation. It is in our nature to reproduce and survive and by having sexual relations with multiple individuals we have a greater chance of staying in the general gene pool. By doing this process it is a…

Based on research 95% and 99% of individuals diagnosed with Klinefelter syndrome are infertile because they do not produce enough sperm to fertilize an egg naturally Paduch, D.A., Fine, R.G., Bolyakov, A., & Kiper, J. (2008) For infertility, Intracytoplasmic sperm injections have been a successful method for individuals diagnosed with Klinefelter syndrome that are trying to conceive a child. For this procedure, a surgeon removes sperm from the testes injected into a needle and places one sperm…

Biologically speaking, the whole purpose of any living organism is to continue its existence; there are two ways to accomplish this: Immortality or reproduction. Some marine animals, such as jellyfish, are capable of “cheating death” by reproducing asexually. But for humans, and most other forms of life, we achieve this feat through reproduction. This is a prodigious responsibility that I think many people do not truly consider before engaging in sexual intercourse. Every individual is…

Primate parenting differs from parenting of other mammals in a number of different ways. For example, primate mothers care for thier offspring that few others seem to. Since they give birth to fewer offspring at a more spread out rate, they care very much about their young. They take the time to provide for, protect, and teach their young in order for them to live the best life possible. There are 6 different types of residence patterns exhibited by primates. The first is one male, multi…