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Mass Extinction: Comparison of Flora and Fauna

may be severely affected by this extinction period as early as 2100. PBS reports that, while scientists like David Jablonski belie...

Genetic Influence on Elite Athletic Performance

of the test in making an educated guess as to a childs athletic future when a child is below age 9 (Lite). In other words, the tes...

The Ethics of Genetic Testing

no matter what the results are, they would not terminate the pregnancy. Hence, this debate in part has to do with the consequences...

Developing a Genetic Vaccine for Malaria

pathogen"; that is, they have to be able to counter the disease if it mutates (Ivory and Chadee, 2004). As noted above, its been d...

How Cultures Play A Role Where Emotions Are Concerned

only one child per family --otherwise leaving the parents to face fines, taxes and the absence of governmental support -- has been...

Genetic Diversity and the Origin of Life

According to one theory, the universe and its components were formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty mill...

Homosexuality: Choice Or Biological Predisposition?

beliefs" (Foner et al, 1991). The act of ridiculing gays and lesbians even back then has made it difficult for them in todays wor...

Asthma: A Research Proposal

chests as well as wheezing and coughing. The physiological reasons for these responses include spasms in the smooth muscle tissu...

Genetic Testing for Congenital Anomalies

based on the results?" (Pinsky, et al, 2001, p. 168). In the case of breast cancer, once a mutation that can cause cancer has be...

DISCRIMINATION SUITES BASED ON GENETICS

The question we need to ask ourselves here, however, is whether such discrimination, legally, can already take place. The National...

The Prevalence of Seasonal Affective Disorder in the Nordic Countries

the increased distance from the equator. In Studies in North America Rosenthal (1983) observed a prevalence in the winter of 1.4%...

Person vs. Environment Debate, Behavior Influences

This paper presents the writer/tutor's opinion that neither personal nor environment factors are fully responsible for shaping hum...

Genetics, and the Future, Science Fiction

This research paper pertains to the topic of genetic manipulation and how advancements in this field were predicted by science fic...

The Positive and Negative Effects of Using Cloning to Treat Genetic Disease

Switching around an embryos mitochondria might appear innocent enough but we must realize that mitochondrial genes act well outsid...

How Children Grow Up To Understand Genetic And Gender Differences

of how children understand the genetic implications of gender masculinity and femininity, with a prominent factor being that male ...

Why Employers Should Not Be Able to Do Genetic Testing

states have passed legislation making the practice illegal (Schafer, 2001). One would think that ones blood is private as are medi...

The Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Adult Development

This is a paper that contains two pages and considers the influence of culture and genetics in the human developmental process and...

Research into the Genetic Causes and Effects of Alcoholism

This research paper indicates the considerable progress that has been made in regards to the biological foundation of risk for alc...

Sickle Cell Anemia, Genetic Bases

This overview of sickle cell disease discusses the genes associated with sickle cell anemia. Three pages in length, five sources a...

Taoism & A Bio-Genetic Future

generally oppose organ transplants because they regard taking organs from a person in a permanent coma as murder. In other words, ...

Is Aggression Learned or Genetic?

been studied from several different perspectives, but it appears that there has been no attempt to relate grade expectations with ...

Behavioral Genetic Component

In five pages this research paper considers the age old scientific debate on whether the behavior of humans is controlled through ...

Intelligence and Its Genetic Component

something reliable. For example, IQ scores do successfully predict the number of years one will be in school, their degree of acad...

Causative Factors Alcoholism Environmental and Genetic

In a paper consisting of eight pages alcoholism's causative factors are discussed in terms of the correlation between genes and en...

Genetic Disease of Alcoholism

fact that two collective bodies of research could provide such a mixed response, suggests that there is indeed reason to disbeliev...

Short Petjolule Type Soybean Genetic Analysis

authors ultimate findings was just how much an integral role recessive genes play in the overall picture. Cary and Nickell (date ...

Genetic Predisposition as Reflected in The Moral Animal

This ten paper paper broaches the concept of biological determinism as it is perceived by Robert Wright. Evolutionary physiology ...

Cancer and Genetic Expression

In twelve pages this paper considers cancer control through the implications and actions associated with the telomerase enzyme and...

Design, Perception and Human Engineering

In 10 pages the dashboard of an automobile is featured in a consideration that illustrates perception importance in product design...

Advanced Discussion on Perception and Human Engineering

In eighteen pages this paper discusses how the dashboard of an automobile can be further improved through speedometer display, rad...