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Profiling Sufferers of Color Blindness

the paper a brief overview of what color blindness actually is. Some things that might be mentioned are that color blindness exist...

UK's Policy on Technology

as well as medical miracles. Technology affects everyone and many industries. In honing in on a few major ones, Britains policy ma...

What Adopted Children Should Know About Their Biological Parents

This paper argues the thesis that genetic and sociological information about birth parents should be available to the children the...

FNP Practice, Genetics Counseling

This research paper pertains to family nurse practitioner (FNP) practice and ethical issues in regards to genetic counseling. Thre...

Osteogenesis Imperfecta, a Hypothetical Case Study Overview

This research paper discusses osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), from the point of view of a fifteen-year-old who is hypothetically pre...

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...

Influenza and the Need for Current Vaccines

This paper reviews genetic drift as it occurs in influenza viruses. Vaccines must change yearly in order to address the changing ...

The Genetic and Environmental Components of Asthma

This paper reviews this disease from both the perspective of individual genetic makeup and environmental exposure in order to disc...

Predicting and Treating Alzheimers

This paper explores the genetic and environmental factors associated with this debilitating disease. There are four sources in th...

Body and Ownership

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at the controversy of genetic patents. Legal rulings on the property status of the human...

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Factors Affecting Its Prevalence

This research paper discusses research pertaining to the behavioral, environmental and genetic factors that affect the incidence o...

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...

Genetic Research and Social Issues

genetic mapping and gene sequencing (Pelletier and Dorval, 2004). As a result of these new genetic engineering techniques, the st...

Report on Genetic Modification of Food

1. Genetically Modified Foods; The Issues In recent years there has been a great deal of attention paid to the concept as well...

An Article on the Disclosure of Genetic Test Results Critiqued

receiving this news may encounter difficulty forming family members due to the implications of such results. As disclosing this g...

An Article on Genetic Testing Reviewed

risk factor, or to become vigilant in getting periodic tests, in the hopes of catching the disease in its early stages; however, t...

Implantation and Genetics

a whole host of other problems, they are also equipped with the option to choose genetic composition such as gender. "We currentl...

Black Community and the Epidemic Proportions of Diabetes

cells that are responsible for producing insulin. Although it can develop at any age, it is described as juvenile onset because m...

Genetic Diversity and Extinction

randomness of change, and then by the belief that evolution is shaped by changes in gene frequencies that are linked to concepts o...

Discussion of Bioethics Involving Parents and Controlling an Unborn Child's Genetic Composition

in essence a mistake. The human genome mapping can now identify specifically which genes carry which genetic disorders; scientist...

Criminal Behavior and Genetics

severe form of antisocial behavior" (Liu, 2004, p. 93). Externalizing behavior can also include hyperactivity, and many hyperacti...

Scientific American Article 'Does Race Exist?' Reviewed

five different groups of people whose ancestors were typically isolated by oceans, deserts or mountains" (Bamshad and Olson, 2003)...

Causative Factors of Schizophrenia

and a set of DNA markers in the gene DTNBP1 (dystrobrevin-binding protein" Diagnosis of mental...

NBA Performance and Genetics

the outcome of sports performance in particular. Others however, contend that other factors affect this performance. Obviously, ...

Effects and Treatment of Phenylketonuria

(Erlandsen, Patch, Gamez, Straub, and Stevens 385). Some four hundred mutations, in fact, are currently linked to Phenylketonuria...

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...

Cross Functional Counseling and Factors That Are Effective

(Schrag, 1995; Hunt, Soto, Maier & Doering, 2003). Nelson (2002) takes this one step further by pointing to a body of resea...

Professional Basketball Physical Performance and Genetic Predisposition

In eight pages this paper focuses upon the NBA in a consideration of whether physical performance is influenced by genetic predisp...

Behavior and the Influence of Genetics

to the effects on human behavior, not the least of which include community, family, substance addition, divorce, deviant behavior,...