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Homosexual Gene - College Essay

Homosexual Gene


In human beings, some Characteristics can be easily explained but with some human traits, we really have no Idea why they occur. Each of these traits has a "clinical profile," the sum total of clues we have from looking at the outside, clinical level. They are mysteries waiting to be biologically solved on the inside, the mystery of what creates them: eye color, height, cystic fibrosis, cancer, intelligence, Tay Sachs, baldness, athletic ability, resistance to some viruses and susceptibility to others, skin tone, muscle mass, allergies and sexual orientation. Some traits can be defined simply by looking at the person, like hair color or height. Some cannot, like cancer or blood type (A, B, ...

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is known, and who’s function we do understand.
Now scientists are attempting to find proof if the infamous “gay gene”. For years, the gay community has been trying to prove that they were “born gay” and that their lifestyle was not choice. The news media has a ridiculous double standard for the trait "sexual orientation" and every other trait. ABC's science journalist David Marash reported on Nightline that a gay gene "suggests that homosexuality may not be a choice." Marash is suggesting that unless we locate a gene for homosexuality, homosexuality is a choice (or, at a minimum, that we cannot know whether it is chosen or not). This is the equivalent of saying that since we have not found the gene that governs left-handedness (and we have not) left-handedness is a choice (or, at a minimum, we cannot determine if it is). Scientists know you don t need to look at a gene to determine if a trait is chosen; you need to look at the trait. Moreover, we have looked, at both of them. ...

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Added: 1/28/2005 07:55:25 AM
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