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Mentally Retarded Mental Retardation
639 wordsFragile X Syndrome is an inherited genetic condition associated with mental retardation. It is caused by a mutation of the X chromosome. Fathers cannot pass the disease onto their sons, because females always give an x chromosome where a man gives either an x or a y. If a man gives a y chromosome, then the result is a boy baby, and since the disease is only carried in the x chromosome, a boy can only inherit this disease from his mother. A girl, on the other hand, can inherit the disease from ei...
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Cystic Fibrosis Recombinant Dna
1,125 wordsCancer is diagnosed in almost 1. 5 million people in the United States annually. Approximately one-half million Americans die of cancer annually, making it the second leading cause of death in the U. S. Cystic fibrosis is an inherited, fatal disease occurring once in every 2, 500 Caucasian births and once in every 17, 000 African American births. Genetic research has failed, so far, to solve many genetic-based cancers, but it has identified the gene and its location (on chromosome 7) responsible...
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Genetic Engineering Human Genome
634 wordsCurrent technology has made what once seemed impossible, mapping the human genome, a reality within the next decade. What began over forty years ago with the discovery of the basic structure of DNA has evolved into the Human Genome Project. This is a fifteen-year, three billion dollar effort to sequence the entire human genetic code. The Project, under the direction of the U. S. National Institute of Health and the department of Energy is ahead of schedule in mapping what makes up an individuals...
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Marfan Syndrome Life Threatening Heart
328 wordsGenetic trait MARFAN SYNDROME is a connective tissue disorder, so affects many structures, including the skeleton, lungs, eyes, heart and blood vessels. Symptoms they can be painful to live with and often require numerous surgeries. Because of ligaments and muscles with no elasticity, fingers, arms, legs and hips often dislocate. Another symptom that has just recently been acknowledged as a possible symptom is the migraine headache. The possible cause for this being the arteries becoming less el...
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Leaving With Tom Jay Gatsby Daisy
690 wordsF. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby is considered a novel that embodies America in the 1920 s. In it, the narrator, Nick Carroway, helps his neighbor Jay Gatsby reunite with Daisy Buchanan, with whom he has been in love with since 5 years before, during World War I. The affair between the two fails, however, and ends in Gatsby being shot and killed. The reason that this was inevitable is that Gatsby created a fantasy so thoroughly that he became part of it, and he fell with it when reality cam...
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Howard Howard Hughes Spruce Goose Years
1,000 wordsHoward Hughes-A Flying Life Howard Howard Hughes was a very inventive, attention getting man. He was an out-spoken entrepreneur who was best known for his hard work and dedication in motion pictures and the aviation industry. His inherited fortune gave him the opportunity to start building on his dreams at an early age. Although Howard remained in the news his entire life he was not always looked on favorably in the public s eye. In later years his paranoia left him a recluse and in twenty years...
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Part Of The Brain Huntington Disease
1,258 wordsHuntingtons Huntingtons Disease Genetic Disorders Huntington's Disease Huntington's Disease is a genetic autosomal disorder which effects the brain. It affects about 1 in 20, 000 individuals. The symptoms of the disease do not start to occur until after or around 40 years of age. With the onset of the disease the patient starts to gradually deteriorate intellectually, this deterioration also causes involuntary movements. Scientists have only recently found the section of the gene which causes Hu...
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Poor Richard Today Society
621 wordsImmoral Materialism The desire to be rich is part of every American s dream, but does one change when one becomes rich? Can one be happy and wealthy? Just as the characters in the novel The Great Gatsby, written by Scott Fitzgerald, people believe that money will buy them a happy life. In the almanack's of Poor Richard, quite a different approach at happiness is presented. Poor Richard writes about money as just a supplement to a wise man, that being knowledgeable and having a trade are far more...
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Islam And Christianity Word Of God
725 words1) Comparing and contrasting at least two of the religions of Abraham, discuss the concept and the role of the Messiah in the religious life. I. Understanding of God Before the differences and similarities are explained in Gods role, both of these groups understanding of God must be explained. Muslims and Christians worship the same God (Allah). The basic testimony of Islam is called the shahada, the first clause of which states that la idaho illa Allah There is no god but God. This is certainly...
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Rights Of Man Paine Argued
394 wordsThomas Paine? s Rights of Man opposes the ridiculous conservative standpoint that Edmund Burke took towards the French Revolution. Paine supported natural rights, and understood that democratic institutions must be implemented in order to guarantee those rights. Paine applied a combination of logic and common sense to discredit Burke? s opinion, thereby proving the legitimacy of the revolution. Burke understood a constitution to be an inherited system, believing that as property is passed from f...
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Mental Retardation Genetic Disorders
577 wordsThe Mental Retardation Mental Retardation The term Mental retardation or Mentally challenged which most people prefer, is when a person can t really think for themselves. The person can t do what most normal people can do such as communicate with others properly or be able to do schoolwork, also they have a low attention span. For example if you were talking to them for let s say 20 minutes, maybe after ten minutes they would get frustrated and their mind would be wondering somewhere else and it...
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Neurodegenerative Diseases Muscle Cells
634 wordsMitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Their sole responsibility is to provide energy for the cell. They do this by synthesizing a molecule known as ATP, which the cell uses as energy. Mitochondria are different from the rest of the cell organelles because they contain their own DNA outside the nucleus. Mutations in this DNA have been found to be linked to Alzheimer s and other neurodegenerative diseases. Mutations in the DNA cause the mitochondria to function in other ways than it usually...
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Person Society Parents
595 wordsNature vs. Nurture Have you ever wondered what enters a persons mind when they decide to commit a horrible crime such as murder? I have often read of such brutal cases in the newspaper or on television and was curious as to what they were thinking and why they had done it. What would make a person take another's life? Many doctors will often try to analyze the mind to seek out those answers. They usually discover more knowledge of the individual by closely examining or questioning other family m...
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Tsar Nicholas Tsarist Rule
1,559 wordsEssay On Nicholas Romanov Nicholas Romanov was an ignorant, incompetent and insensitive leader. His character was the decisive factor in bringing on the revolution The last Tsar of Russia was a tragic figure a classic case of being a leader in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nothing within his power could have prevented the forces of change from overtaking Tsarist Russia. To what extent do you agree with these explanations of the collapse of autocracy in Russia? Nicholas Romanov was an indeci...
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South Africa Food Supply
1,726 wordsWHICH CULTURE IS FOR YOU? Anthropology is the study of humankind everywhere, throughout time, seeks to produce reliable knowledge about people and their behavior, both about what makes them different and what they all share in common. The next few pages will share with you some simple facts about two cultures that are very much different, and are seperated by a span of ocean water. These two groups of people are the Yanomamo people of Brazil and the Swazi of South Africa. INTRODUCTION There is a...
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Theory Of Forms Theory Of Knowledge
861 wordsPlato was born Plato Plato Plato was born in, 427 B. C. , in the city of Athens to an upper-class family. His parents were Ariston and the other was Pericton. Plato? s real name was Aristocles. He was called Platon due to the fact that he had a broad forehead and broad shoulders. Plato only recorded two facts, about himself, by himself. They were that he was present in the court room at the trial of Socrates, and that he was one of the friends that offered to pay any fine that may be imposed on ...
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Continues To Grow Personality
897 wordsDevelopmental Personality Development Luke Brotzman Developmental Psychology Dr. Frangicetto 4 / 24 / 00 Personality Development What theory of Human Development makes a person what they are? Why does a person do what they do? Where does personality come from and how does it grow? These are some frequently asked questions when discussing the topic of personality. Personality does originate from a specific point, and from then on it continues to grow and become exponentially more complex. There a...
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President Of The United States Similarities And Differences
1,534 wordsSimilarities and Differences of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington In this essay I will compare and contrast two Americans from the history era of 1607 1876. The two that I have chosen are Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. First, I will be going over a brief overview of each person so that you can get a feel on who they are. Second, I will be discussing the similarities and differences of their early life, revolution era, their presidency. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), was the 3 rd p...
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Don Acute T Twenty Three
883 wordsThe E Type´ Jaguar. My feelings were a mixture of sadness and excitement to be looking round Uncle Jim´ s farm so soon after his death. The main body of our family were in the house sorting out legal matters, and I went to search through the outbuildings. The farm was more run down than any place I had ever seen. Mum called it Picturesque´ . There were roof slates missing from almost every elevation, broken windows, and green slime running down walls where a drainpipe should ha...
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Soren Kierkegaard Hans Christian
950 wordsBy Adam Soren Kierkegaard Soren Kierkegaard By Adam C. Schuyler Philosophy 101 February 28, 200 Existentialism is a philosophical movement that stresses on individual existence. Humans are totally free and responsible for their own actions. Man is not a detached observer of the world, he exists, he is in the world. Only man is in his own existence, nothing else can share that existence. Man has no set rules to follow nor are there a set number of choices he has to make. Man follows a simple piec...
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