Essays Tagged: "genes"

Genetic Engineering

ther family traitsare inherited from parents and passed on to children in a cellular materialcalled genes. Some diseases can also be inherited or caused by changes inone's own genes or those of a pare ... Inheritance is a characteristic of allliving things. You can actually change someone or something's genes. This iscalled genetic engineering. Technically, genetic engineering is the use ormanipulation ...

(8 pages) 334 1 4.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Bio engineering

Bioengineering, or genetic engineering is an altering ofgenes in a particular species for a particular outcome.It involves taking genes from their normal lo ... on of naturally-occurring and artificially-modified biological products by the expression of cloned genes.· Insertion of selectable marker genes to pick out recombinant molecules containing for ... g· Insertion of sequences which not only allow but greatly increase the expression of cloned genes in bacterial, animal and plant cells.· The ability to take a gene from one organism (e. ...

(2 pages) 94 0 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

PCR And Its Use

technology utilizingthe heat stable DNA polymerase from a thermophilic organism.' (from http://www.genes.com/pcr/pcrinfo.html) Dr. K.Mullis recently received the Nobel prize for inventing the techniq ...

(3 pages) 84 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Cloning

f medicine, cloning can be a very useful technique. It is not only just being able to reproduce the genes, but to be able to transfer them and to study them. It would be possible to study organs of th ... arn how they can alter them to cause them to regenerate after injury. Also, the ways of reproducing genes and copying DNA could help in finding cures for certain diseases and disorders.Scientists can ...

(2 pages) 88 0 3.3 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Biodiversity

inclusive- it's the genetic based variation of living organisms at all levels, from the variety of genes in populations of single species, through species, on up to the array of natural ecosystems.' ...

(2 pages) 294 2 4.4 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Eugenics Brief discussion of eugenics in America

to describe a process which is implemented in hopes of creating a better race of humans through the genes the parent generation passes down to the offspring. The term was used originally by Englishman ...

(3 pages) 114 0 4.8 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Biotechnology

own disease. I believe that genetic engineering could be unsafe.Genetic engineering is used to take genes and segments of DNA from one species and put them into another species. Genetical Engineering ... n the organism it came from or what it might do if we place it into a completely different species. Genes from the color red placed into petunia flowers not only changed the color of the petals, but a ...

(3 pages) 203 0 4.6 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

Gene Therapy

nteract with gene products to alter their phenotype, gene therapy may be the key to modify specific genes and provide a definitive cure to whichever disease is being dealt with. While many of the dise ... ated to genetics such as diabetes and cancer, may also reap the benefits of this miracle treatment. Genes within somatic cells may be manipulated to correct a specific disease within an individual; in ...

(7 pages) 227 1 4.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

Cloning

whole cell nuclei. With other techniques scientists can isolatesections of DNA representing single genes, determine their nucleotidesequences, and reproduce them in the laboratory. This offers the po ... equences, and reproduce them in the laboratory. This offers the possibilityof creating entirely new genes with commercially or medically desirableproperties.While the potential benefits of genetic eng ...

(2 pages) 57 0 3.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Cloning

whole cell nuclei. With other techniques scientists can isolatesections of DNA representing single genes, determine their nucleotidesequences, and reproduce them in the laboratory. This offers the po ... equences, and reproduce them in the laboratory. This offers the possibilityof creating entirely new genes with commercially or medically desirableproperties.While the potential benefits of genetic eng ...

(2 pages) 72 0 3.0 Dec/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Technology and " Boys from Brazil"

orated Nazi doctor, and the effort made by a Jewish investigator to stop him. The doctor cloned the genes of famous Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and genetically implanted them into the egg of a woman in ... ife to his research, which dated back to the time of the Nazi camps. His main goal was to clone the genes of Hitler and implant them in newborns. He performed many types of crude experiments on the pr ...

(3 pages) 39 0 4.1 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Cystic Fibrosis

ve cystic fibrosis, 1:17000 blacks, 1:6000 live births, 1:2500 Americans, and 1:20 is a carrier.The genes are inherited in pairs, with one gene coming from each parent to make the pair. Cystic fibrosi ... in pairs, with one gene coming from each parent to make the pair. Cystic fibrosis occurs when both genes have mutations. A person with cystic fibrosis receives one cystic fibrosis gene from each pare ...

(7 pages) 134 0 4.4 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Biological Determinism

1. According to the author of the article 'All in the Genes?', there is no intrinsic causality between genetics and intelligence. The author analyses diff ... does not agree with biological determinist that the intellectual performance of a person depends on genes inherited from his parents. There are a lot of different theories about intellectual capabilit ... ain factor that determines level of intellectual performance, not inherited combination of parent's genes . He argues that genetic differences that appear in one environment may easily disappear in an ...

(12 pages) 162 0 3.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Near & Farsightedness, What are visual defects and how common are they?

ves theeye color. The color of the iris has no effect on how yousee and is inherited through genes. The iris contols howmuch light is allowed to enter your by opening upfurther when it ...

(1 pages) 30 0 3.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

A Massive Project for the Benefit of Mankind. A Look at the Human Genome Project

Scientists are taking medical technology to new heights as they race to map all of the genes, nearly 100,000, in the 23 chromosomes of the human body. Along the way, they hope to understa ... stimated to have detailed maps of all of the chromosomes and know the location of most of the human Genes by 1996.Researchers have successfully located the gene and DNA sequence for Huntington's Disea ... benefited Gene-mapping. It utilizes genetic engineering to treat genetic disorders by 'introducing genes into existing cells to prevent or cure diseases' . Most of the methods are still in the experi ...

(6 pages) 186 0 2.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Essay on Thought Contagion. Explains Thought Contagion and examples of how MEMES effect the mind. Teacher of class was very impressed.

n of the same memory item in one or more other organisms' nervous systems.Everyone is familiar with genes: the biological code-carriers that program our corporal body by amino acid sequences in our DN ... bstract and deeply ingrained its existence has remained invisible to us until just recently?Just as genes travel from cell to cell generationally as they replicate, and fulminate physical changes, mem ...

(14 pages) 171 1 4.9 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Biotech

Bioengineering, or genetic engineering is an altering ofgenes in a particular species for a particular outcome.It involves taking genes from their normal lo ... on of naturally-occurring and artificially-modified biological products by the expression of cloned genes.· Insertion of selectable marker genes to pick out recombinant molecules containing for ... g· Insertion of sequences which not only allow but greatly increase the expression of cloned genes in bacterial, animal and plant cells.· The ability to take a gene from one organism (e. ...

(2 pages) 45 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

Describe the biological explanation of crime. Identify key aspects of crime that are hard to explain in this way.

can be administered by rules, views/opinions, faith, pressures and, in biological terms, inherited genes.The claims of the biological explanation have been under development since the early 19th cent ... for this would be sterilisation of this category.Over the recent decades the study in understanding genes and how they work has been deeply explored giving us an insight into the structure known as DN ...

(4 pages) 125 0 4.3 Aug/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Human Cloning isn't as scary as it sounds

rns being raised are exaggerated and misplaced, becausethey are based on erroneous views about what genes are and what they cando. The danger, therefore, lies not in the power of the technology, but i ... ontemporaneous twin. To think otherwise is to embrace a belief ingenetic determinism--the view that genes determine everything about us,and that environmental factors or the random events in human dev ...

(5 pages) 128 0 3.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Life-span development chap 3 notes

do so because they are superior in a number of ways* "survival of the fittest" - pass the superior genes on to offspringB.Sociobiology: relies on the principles of evolutionary biology to explain soc ... ot adequately considering adaptability/experience* portrays humans as being controlled primarily by genes* explains behavior after the fact lacking predictive ability* discriminative against womenC.Ev ...

(3 pages) 115 0 3.4 Sep/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology