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Side Effects Normal Cells
1,080 wordsChemotherapy: The treatment of disease with drugs that directly poison the diseased organism. Most often referred to for cancer treatment, where powerful drugs with potentially sever side effects are used to eliminate or contain the spread of tumors. In treating physical diseases, probably the most common form of therapy in Western medicine is chemotherapy, or drug therapy. Some physical conditions, where chemotherapy is not the best option, can be corrected through surgery while others may be e...
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Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Pah Enzyme Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Pah Pku
899 wordsPhenylketonuria is one of the commonest inherited disorders - occurring in approximately 1 in 10, 000 babies born in the U. S. It occurs in babies who inherit two mutant genes for the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH). This enzyme normally breaks down molecules of the amino acid phenylalanine that are in excess of the body's needs for protein synthesis. Because we inherit two copies of the gene for the enzyme, both must be defective to produce the disease. A laboratory test that measures ho...
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Human Cloning Cloning Process
451 wordsDr. Severing Antinori, who gained notoriety after helping a 62 -year old woman to bear a child is collaborating with fertility specialist Panos Zavos to offer desperate infertile couples a chance to conceive a child via cloning. Both researchers plan to describe their work at a conference of the National Academy of Science. Italian medical authorities strongly oppose Antinori's stated plans and are threatening to yank his medical license. He and his associates may also find themselves on the wro...
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Viral Dna Infectious Disease
817 wordsPolio is an infectious disease that has haunted the lives of many for over 3, 000 years. The first record of Poliomyelitis in the human body dates back to ancient Egypt where inhabitants of the area engraved a documented version of paralytic Poliomyelitis into stone. When indoor plumbing came into use, in the 20 th century, and sewage systems began to develop into complicated public works where waste was dumped into towns' water supplies; that is when Poliomyelitis began to spread. The disease c...
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Endoplasmic Reticulum Nuclear Membrane
329 wordsI made my cell project by myself. It took me 1 day to build it. I made the Mitochondria out of a dark blue glass squiggle, I made the Vacuole out of a light blue glass squiggle, I made the Golgi Complex out of a dark red string of yarn, and the Lysosomes were made out of a light blue pebble. I made the Endoplasmic Reticulum out of bubble tape, the Ribosomes were made from purple marker marks on the bubble tape, the Cytoplasm was made out of Styrofoam, and the Nucleus, Nucleolus, and Nuclear Memb...
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Potential Health Benefits Of The Human Genome Project
1,195 words... oregon organs either, as they will soon serve no purpose. Improvements in the health field due to the HGP extend all the way down to the area of therapeutics. The project will allow pharmaceutical companies to produce more effective drugs, and doctors will be able to prescribe these drugs based on ones DNA. Medical records will include our complete genome and will allow for an accurate prediction by doctors as to our responses to certain drugs. These predictions by doctors will help to antic...
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The Issue Of Human Cloning
1,635 wordsHuman cloning is a big issue in the science world. When people think of human cloning they think of the positive aspects of the issue. Having a cloned superstar around, being able to have a person reborn after a tragic death and even as far as using a cloned person for spare parts. Cloning could affect the human race. Although there are good reasons why cloning should remain legal, there are just as many reasons why this procedure could have negative affects. Health risks can be very serious whe...
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Stem Cell Immune System
393 wordsGeneric Heart Engineering To engineer a heart, the pathways to its formation through stem cells must first be discovered through one genome line that is as healthy as possible (i. e. no signs of an genetic disorders, especially related to oncogenes, no family history of heart problems). Then a process could be made to grow a heart in vitro through the use of the right cell signaling, transcription factors and hormones. After this process is perfected, the genome could be screened again for any d...
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Intelligent Agents Intelligent Design
494 wordsIn the 1930 s and 1940 s, neo-Darwinian synthesis or neo-Darwinism appeared. The theory gave a new look at Darwinism theory. It proved that genetic variations in populations are the result of mutation and recombination. Evolution between one generation and another is a result of genetic drift, gene flow and natural selection. When populations are isolated by geographic barriers the process occurs gradually. The discovery of DNA caused those statements. It proved that the evolution of species hap...
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Intelligent Design In The School System
2,035 wordsIntelligent Design in the school system A lot of processes in modern life have become more complicated during the century. Economic, political, cultural and technological processes have influenced greatly humans perception of environment and our interaction with it. For last decades public schools have been faced a dilemma regarding the teaching of biological origins. The problem was within the scope of scientists, educators, and the courts. In 1987, Edwards v. Aguillard case was the beginning o...
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Animals And Plants Sense Of Identity
1,102 wordsWe all want to cure those who are sick. We want to wipe out disease. No, we demand it! Most of us in this audience have either lost loved ones or have seen loved ones suffer debilitating disease. We are waiting for the time when we no longer have to suffer such things. Can cloning be the answer to incurable disease? Is it good for mankind? In this paper I want to explain why I support cloning research. Let me first say couple words about this scientific innovation. The basic cloning process is v...
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Factor Viii Factor Ix
1,170 wordsRobert Morris Haemophilia Haemophilia Robert Morris In the human body, each cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, one of each pair inherited through the egg from the mother, and the other inherited through the sperm of the father. Of these chromosomes, those that determine sex are X and Y. Females have XX and males have XY. In addition to the information on sex, the X chromosomes carry determinants for a number of other features of the body including the levels of factor VIII and factor IX. 1 I...
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Mary Shelley Frankenstein Test Tube
307 wordsFear in a Test Tube Cloning, genetically tailoring offspring, and creating the perfect human were all advances in science that seemed unattainable yet desirable. People were amazed by the myth of genetically altering DNA, and daydreamed of the day that they themselves could create another living being out of a test tube. Mary Shelley s Frankenstein paved the way for people to imagine and believe this way. Dr. Frankenstein s animation of his creature allowed people to fathom and marvel at the won...
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Nucleic Acids Amino Acids
426 wordsIn this assesment the student will identify the characteristics and roles of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids in a living system. Write a 4 paragraph report describing the atoms in the compound building blocks, types, structure, and function of each. The student must also describe what they would do if they were given a jar with an unknown substance to find out wether or not it contained any of the substances listed above. Proteins: Proteins are long chains of amino acids that ...
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Put In Place Gene Therapy
1,097 wordsGenetic Therapy that focuses on hemophilia Gene therapy is reinserting certain genes that helps deal with genetic diseases. There are three basic forms of this gene therapy. The first is Gene Inactivation Therapy in which the transferred gene neutralizes the proteins and evens out the amount or rids of the defective proteins. Another type is Gene Augmentation Therapy where the original form of the gene or the normal form of the gene is inserted into one of the cell? s chromosomes. This procedure...
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Recombinant Dna Genetic Material
702 wordsComplaining about What is scarring people in these days is the possibility of cloning discoveries. At this point the question is: how this discovery will affect our society? And what is the scientists goal? . We all are worried about this discovery because what come out from scientists it is not really reassuring. Even scientists don? t know what will be the long- term? s effects of? playing? with genes if they might have bad results on patients descendants. Moreover, by altering the natural cou...
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13 Th Amendment Genetically Engineered
1,829 wordsGenetic Faltering Regenerating extinct species, engineering babies that are born without vital body organs, this is what the use of genetic engineering brings to the world. In Greek myth, an chimera was a part lion, part goat, part dragon that lived in Lycia; in real life, it s an animal customized with genes of different species. In reality, it could be a human-animal mixture that could result in horror for the scientific community. In myth the chimera was taken down by the warrior Bellerophon,...
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One In Four Cloning Dna Plants
561 wordstitle: genetics type: Term Paper Genetic engineering is both good and bad for many reasons. The many affects of genetic engineering are seen on some species of plants such acorn; animals such as rabbits; and in humans in in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, and cloning. Genetics may some day be able to let us clone dieing breeds of animals like the bald eagle. They might even some day bible to clone dinosaurs, as seen in the movie Jurassic Park. When breeding with plants, scientists ...
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Genetic Engineering Gene Therapy
1,061 wordsI think that there are going to be a lot of new changes in the upcoming millennium. I think the change that will have the biggest impact will be genetic engineering. One side of genetic engineering will be that parents will be allowed to chose the outcome of their baby. Another side is cloning. I think the biggest part will be correcting DNA to get rid of diseases. That could also be a part of choosing your baby because you could fix any problems before it is even born. I think the part that wil...
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Sexual Maturity Sexual Reproduction
225 wordsReproductive Strategies Essay Continuity is the passing of DNA from an object to its offspring by Sexual or Asexual means There are two major modes of reproduction: Sexual and Asexual. Sexual reproduction takes place when two organisms get to gather and exchange DNA, an example of this is frogs mating. Asexual reproduction only requires one organism to reproduce, an example of this could be Cell Division. One major difference between these to modes of reproduction is the need for more then one o...
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