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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...

Sex Offending Explained

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

Unborn Babies, Genetic Defects, and Parents' Right to Know

with it a great deal of uncertainty and guilt. Needless to say, most men and women who undertake abortions do not do so lightly o...

Chapter Twelve of Visions by Michio Kaku

for the new research that could be done. Scientists are stating that it is now possible to grow tissues that will not trigger the ...

Protein Synthesis, RNA, and DNA

amino acid sequences of Proteins" (2003). In figuring out the Genetic Code one can see how a sequence of bases as contained in RNA...

Brook and Tseng's Research on the Correlation Between Negativity and Anger in Toddlers and Drug Use by Parents

regard to how that behavior impacted their child. Under the third hypothesis, the interdependent model hypothesis, parental perso...

Impact of Stress on Diabetes

and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...

Alcoholism and Children of Alcoholics

of alcoholics. To prove that children of alcoholics are more likely to physiologically be alcoholic themselves provides added supp...

Progress of Fat and Genetic Predisposition to Obesity

health. There are morbidly obese people who appear to enjoy being the way they are and actively seek to maintain their stat...

Sociological Considerations of Genetics Research Effects

study of knowledge and morality in society to ask several ethical, legal and relevant social questions. Traditionally, fed...

Arguing for an Adopted Child's Right to Know Biological Parentage

is to address these two aspects of biological identity as they relate to the human right to know their biological origin. S...

Cloning and the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

Genetic Science and Self Concept

could be toying with the emotions of another future human being? There is also the question of what type of social stigma would b...

Law, Genetics, and Insurance Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

The Genetic Basis of Anxiety Disorders

Bouton, Mineka and Barlow (2001, 4) comment: "Anxiety, an anticipatory emotional state that functions to...

Overview of the Genetic Disorder PWS

genetic cause is loss of yet unidentified genes normally contributed by the father" (Internet source). Information at the PWSAs we...

Genetic Alteration and Ethics

die due to a womans right to choose. Each situation is taken individually but it is really all the same. These situations of human...

Male v. Female Victims of Eating Disorders

"1 teenage girl in 8, and 4% of teenage boys had serious symptoms of anorexia nervosa...

Developing a Genetic Vaccine for Malaria

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...

How Cultures Play A Role Where Emotions Are Concerned

only one child per family --otherwise leaving the parents to face fines, taxes and the absence of governmental support -- has been...

Genetic Influence on Elite Athletic Performance

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...

The Ethics of Genetic Testing

no matter what the results are, they would not terminate the pregnancy. Hence, this debate in part has to do with the consequences...

Genetic Diversity and the Origin of Life

According to one theory, the universe and its components were formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty mill...

Homosexuality: Choice Or Biological Predisposition?

beliefs" (Foner et al, 1991). The act of ridiculing gays and lesbians even back then has made it difficult for them in todays wor...

Gender And Socialization: Nature Or Nurture?

in the field of child development have consistently found that this incongruous approach parents have toward their children begins...

Watson’s DNA

this puzzle. While the article appears overall to be accurate, in that the author quotes reliable sources, Begley (2007) does not ...

The Biological Bases of Behavior

parents have a heightened probability of developing alcoholism than do children of nonalcoholic parents (Grucza and Bierut 172). ...

Critique of "Does Race Exist?"

groups on the basis of at least 60 Alu polymorphisms, but only narrowly enough to identify their continent of origin. They report...

Prisoners: Lower Moral Development

criminology, Lombroso recognized similarities between humans and rodents that led him to believe how people can, indeed, exhibit c...

Faith & Science/Human Need for Religion

note that he differentiates between "religion" and "spirituality." Hamer maintains that "spirituality is genetic, while religion i...