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Essays 271 - 300
of nature that before had been left almost entirely to chance. We quickly expanded this control beyond agriculture and to numero...
(Erlandsen, Patch, Gamez, Straub, and Stevens 385). Some four hundred mutations, in fact, are currently linked to Phenylketonuria...
abnormally" (The National Marfan Foundation, 2005). Physicians who followed also noted similar problems in other patients which al...
the outcome of sports performance in particular. Others however, contend that other factors affect this performance. Obviously, ...
and a set of DNA markers in the gene DTNBP1 (dystrobrevin-binding protein" Diagnosis of mental...
In eight pages this paper focuses upon the NBA in a consideration of whether physical performance is influenced by genetic predisp...
(Schrag, 1995; Hunt, Soto, Maier & Doering, 2003). Nelson (2002) takes this one step further by pointing to a body of resea...
chemicals or through genetic engineering. Many people remember DES, the wonder drug of the 1960s, that produced babies without lim...
1990 the U.S.D.A. had approved almost one-hundred test plantings of genetically altered crops (Nash, 1990). It has been a slow pro...
five different groups of people whose ancestors were typically isolated by oceans, deserts or mountains" (Bamshad and Olson, 2003)...
growing population and our shrinking agricultural resources. The world as a whole in fact mirrored those problems. Our focus on ...
a whole host of other problems, they are also equipped with the option to choose genetic composition such as gender. "We currentl...
randomness of change, and then by the belief that evolution is shaped by changes in gene frequencies that are linked to concepts o...
severe form of antisocial behavior" (Liu, 2004, p. 93). Externalizing behavior can also include hyperactivity, and many hyperacti...
in essence a mistake. The human genome mapping can now identify specifically which genes carry which genetic disorders; scientist...
cells that are responsible for producing insulin. Although it can develop at any age, it is described as juvenile onset because m...
difficulty grasping mathematical concepts (Fidler, Hodapp and Dyken, 2002). While not every child with WS fits this profile, a lar...
the problems they (I assume "they" is a team of scientists) encountered patenting the rice, and in making the technology freely av...
engineered food crop, the "Flavr Savr" tomato, had made it to the buying public (The Economist, 1997). Early proponents o...
to the effects on human behavior, not the least of which include community, family, substance addition, divorce, deviant behavior,...
According to one theory, the universe and its components were formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty mill...
beliefs" (Foner et al, 1991). The act of ridiculing gays and lesbians even back then has made it difficult for them in todays wor...
the increased distance from the equator. In Studies in North America Rosenthal (1983) observed a prevalence in the winter of 1.4%...
chests as well as wheezing and coughing. The physiological reasons for these responses include spasms in the smooth muscle tissu...
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...
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...
have become capable of changing genets. Genetic research is the latest large area of study in the broader field of genetics. While...
may be severely affected by this extinction period as early as 2100. PBS reports that, while scientists like David Jablonski belie...
envisioned as means to optimize care, taking it to a new level of quality. The technologies associated with this trend have result...
only one child per family --otherwise leaving the parents to face fines, taxes and the absence of governmental support -- has been...