Essays on Genetics

Wow, aren’t genealogies exciting?? I’ll be honest, I’ve been a little worried about reading this out loud in front of everyone. But if you’re like me, you might be wondering – Why in the world would Matthew’s Gospel – the first book in the New...

In case the genomic time can be said to have an exact birth date, it was within the middle of the appearance of the series, on April 14, 2003. That was when the worldwide exertion known as the Human Genome Extend put an effort to...

What is Eugenics Eugenics is recognised as a science that involves controlled breeding within a population to improve the occurrence of desirable traits and decrease the inheritance of genetic diseases and undesirable traits. The origin of the term eugenics derives from the Greek word ‘eu’...

The topic of Eugenics affects several Catholic Views of Social Justice. One Social Justice in particular that directly affects the view of Catholics is Ecological Justice. Ecological Justice is being concerned with the obligations that humans have to the rest of creation. Eugenics is the...

Genetic engineering, in definition, is the artificial manipulation, modification, and recombination of DNA or other nucleic acid molecules in order to modify an organism or a population of organisms. Genetic engineering is beneficial in many ways. In an experiment setting, the technology was demonstrated to...

In this essay I have analyzed and critically evaluated the findings of four researches conducted with the goal to find the link between genes and aggression. I have also tried to determine how likely it is that these genes make an individual more prone to...

Brief Introduction In modern society, when people are enjoying the convenience brought by powerful technology and science, they also hope to keep this status forever. This, without doubt, leads us to the word: immortality. In order to learn this term, it is easy to start...

With each passing minute, the world population increases by hundreds, and to support the ever-increasing population, food is required. To cope up with this food demand, various methods are being devised since decades. A recent one under discussion is ‘Gene Editing’. This method, unlike any...

Amongst the rapidly growing field of genetics lies a rather peculiar process which once was the pinnacle of Science Fiction now a certain absolute in reality – Cloning. Regardless of any controversial issues surrounding this process, it is now more widely used than ever and...

Homosexuality known as a sexual desire and attraction to individuals of one’s possess sex. The term gay is regularly utilized as an equivalent word for gay person; female homosexuality is frequently called as lesbianism. The geneticists had found that genetic factors may influence the homosexuality...

GMOs are transgenic organisms carrying foreign genes either from virus, bacteria, plants, humans in order to improve their genetic structure for particular purposes. In this procedure the beneficial or gene of interest is identified which is then isolated and multiplied and then inserted into the...

Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine and the Palo Alto Veteran Affairs Health Care System have established a section of genetic mutations which govern cholesterol levels in the body and may also guide the development and use of cardiovascular and diabetes drugs. This data...

Within a primate species’ general sequence analysis there lies a potentially new open reading frame (ORF) on Line-1 5’UTR (untranslated region). This ORF is positioned in the antisense side left of the ORF1 and ORF2 already known and called ORF0. ORF0 appears in 3000+ loci...

Phytoestrogens are a group of heterogeneous herbal substances; they are called non-steroidal estrogens or estrogen-like molecules, as their structure is comparable to 17-β-estradiol structure, phytoestrogens are diphonelic compounds however they are non-steroidal substance despite their structural resemblance with estradiol, Presently phytoestrogens group contains more than...

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has affected millions of people worldwide, more especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The number of infections that occurred in infants in 2014 was estimated at 220, 000. Out of this, approximately ninety mine percent of the infections in infants are acquired...

The cancer stem cell (CSC) hypothesis is regarded as a reasonable explanation for the rapid multiplication of cells in the disease. They are self-sufficient cells which seem to have increase tumorigenicity and self-renewal, which allow them to expand more rapidly than normal cells. While the...

Introduction In the early years of scientific investigations in the field of heredity, the methods used to obtain data were considered genetical but once the physical basis of genetic conditions were recognized several studies were performed using methods of both cytology and genetics, using the...

Rhodiola rosea L. (R. rosea) is an adaptogenic plant that increases body’s resistance to stress. Studies have provided evidence of R. rosea efficacy mainly in models of chronic stress; only scarce data exist on its effect in acute stress and the underlying mechanisms. The objective...

The BBC article “Gene editing wipes out mosquitoes in the lab” discusses work using a gene editing technique to suppress populations of caged mosquitoes Anopheles gambiae, which transmits malaria. In 2016 were 216 million cases of malaria in 91 countries and 445000 people were killed...