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What Is Sickle Cell DiseaseSickle Cell Anemia
By Alliyah Gunter, Grade 11
Chemistry period D
What is Sickle Cell Disease?
Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that affects red blood cells. People with sickle cell disease have red blood cells that contain mostly hemoglobin* S, an abnormal type of ...
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Breast CancerWhen I was younger my grandmother had a friend with breast cancer. I remember always asking what was breast cancer. My grandmother told me that breast cancer was for older women who had breast, that they got a lump inside of one of there tit or both. It made me feel better at the time because I ...
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Genetics: A Short HistoryBy Dr. Rob DeSalle
At the dawn of the 20th century, when the writings of an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel were rediscovered, genetics became a science.
Notions of heredity and inheritance were already prevalent. Having domesticated plants and animals, people realized that in many cases, ...
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Inheritance ProblemsInheritance Problems (M3)
1. Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a genetic disease that can lead to poor development of brain. The allele for PKU is recessive to the allele for no PKU. A woman has found she is heterozygous for PKU. Her male partner is homozygous for the normal allele. You need to ...
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Sickle Cell AnemiaSickle Cell Anemia
Lori Donahue
Franciscan University
April 3, 2016
Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood disorder characterized primarily by chronic anemia and periodic ...
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Potential Dangers of Human CloningHello dear friends and dear Grace. We would like to introduce ourselves first. I am idil and I am ceren. Today our topic of persuasive speaking is human cloning. First of all
Potential Dangers of Human Cloning
Some folks consider human cloning as the biggest breakthrough of the century, while ...
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Animal TestingHas anyone ever heard of Animal Testing? Have any idea what it is? Animal testing is the process of putting test medicine and test antibiotics in animals that have the same or almost the same genes as humans such as mice, who share 98% of their genes with us. A vast number of vaccines and ...
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A Study Of Inheritable Traits In Fruit FliesINTRODUCTION
The Drosophila melanogaster, more commonly known as the fruit fly, is a
popular species used in genetic experiments. In fact, Thomas Hunt Morgan began
using Drosophila in the early 1900’s to study genes and their relation to
certain chromosomes(Biology 263). Scientists have located ...
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Issues Of AddictionPeople suffering from addictions most times won't realize it, but their disease is hurting more than just themselves. It is not only the physical aspect of the addiction that hurts them, but also what it is doing to the life of the addict. "Life" can be taken as social life, working life, and ...
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A Look At Animal TestingOne is a genius; the other's insane
They're laboratory mice
Their genes have been spliced
They're Pinky, they're Pinky and the Brain, Brain
Brain, Brain, Brain."
This theme song to a popular cartoon is a farce dealing with experiments carried out on animals. In the cartoon one mouse is made ...
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Nature Vs. NurtureThere has been constant debate between scientists about the influence of the environment on children. The other philosophy is what of the influence of environment over nature. This debate has raged for decades. Current scientists are no closer to ending the debate.
Nature:
Physical appearance ...
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Biosafety Protocol: Is There A Need For One??
Outline
Thesis statement: An international biosafety protocol should be created to
establish and maintain control over the products designed with biotechnology.
I. The existing laws and regulations that govern the release of
transgenic organisms are inadequate or nonexistent. ...
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The Time Machine By H.G WellsHerbert George Wells was born in 1866 in Bromley, Kent, a few miles from London, the son of a house-maid and gardener. Wells died in 1946, a wealthy and famous author, having seen science fiction become a recognized literary form and having seen the world realize some of science fiction's fondest ...
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Information About Transgenic OrganismsTransgenic Organism, plant, animal, or bacteria that has been genetically modified to contain a gene from a different species. The new gene is inherited by offspring in the same way as the organism's own genes. The transgenic condition is achieved by injecting the foreign gene into the fertilized ...
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Men And Women: Why Are We So Different??
It is an undeniable fact that there are many differences between males and females, but we should be weary of making claims of superiority placing the importance of one gender over another. We should not view these differences as an absence of equality, but rather as the driving force that ...
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Cloning And Embryo Research: The Science Fiction Reality
The idea of cloning a life form seemed like something read from a science fiction novel just ten years ago. Now, the theories, ideas and facts of cloning embryos have made cloning one of the most talked about social issues of our time. The researchers of this ...
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Cystic FibrosisOne out of every 2,500 births in the united states will be diagnosed
With . This fact makes one of the most common
Genetic diseases in the nation. About 30,000 americans have the disease, but
Even though is the nations most common genetic disease the
Majority of americans know little about ...
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Animals And Their PurposeAnimals. What's their purpose on earth? Are they a group of organisms for humans to play with? Among many other things, animals are here as guinea pigs so humans don't have to be. Human life is so valued by today's society that using humans for dangerous jobs, or brand new experiments is ...
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Intelligent Design As A TheoryABSTRACT: For the scientific community intelligent design represents creationism's latest grasp at scientific legitimacy. Accordingly, intelligent design is viewed as yet another ill-conceived attempt by creationists to straightjacket science within a religious ideology. But in fact intelligent ...
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