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Gonadal Dysgenesis

Synopsis Genetic abnormalities often have distinct...

The Impacts of Down Syndrome

Introduction Down syndrome results from a chromosomal anomaly. Instead of a child having the normal twenty chromosomes the...

An Overview of Huntington's Disease

2008, 436). There is no cure for Huntingtons. Genetics The gene for the disease is found on the fourth chromosome (Collins, 19...

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 Research, Trend Towards Personalized Medicine

envisioned as means to optimize care, taking it to a new level of quality. The technologies associated with this trend have result...

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...

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...

A Bibliography on Genetic Engineering

In a paper of 3 pages, the author provides an annotated bibliography on the topic of genetic engineering. This bibliography refle...

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...

A Topic in Biological and Cognitive Psychology

have a twin who reflects the same mental illness (Edlin & Golanty, 2010). Slide 6: Epigenetic Change Non-hereditary biological ...

Topics Pertaining to Learning

it draws on what students already know, which aids them in assimilating new material. The learning environment should be both chal...

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...

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...

Effects and Treatment of Phenylketonuria

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

Genetic Disorder Marfan Syndrome

abnormally" (The National Marfan Foundation, 2005). Physicians who followed also noted similar problems in other patients which al...

NBA Performance and Genetics

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

Causative Factors of Schizophrenia

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

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...

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...

Controversy Over Genetic Engineering

chemicals or through genetic engineering. Many people remember DES, the wonder drug of the 1960s, that produced babies without lim...

Issues Investigation and Genetic Engineering

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...

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)...

An Alcoholism Overview

and forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a varie...

Human Nature and Selfishness

that mankind is hardwired for selfishness and are a slave to these drives whether we understand or are cognizant of them in the fi...

Sex Offending Explained

of sex crimes, however. Sexual violence often targets children as well (Nester, 1998). The issues surrounding child abuse alone ...