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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...

Understanding Sickle Cell Anemia

and intermittent episodes of vascular occlusion causing both acute and chronic pain. It is estimated that 70,000 Americans of diff...

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...

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)...

Causative Factors of Schizophrenia

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

NBA Performance and Genetics

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

Behavior and the Influence of Genetics

to the effects on human behavior, not the least of which include community, family, substance addition, divorce, deviant behavior,...

New Jersey Law and Genetic Testing

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

Gregor Mendel's Genetic Research and its Impacts

of nature that before had been left almost entirely to chance. We quickly expanded this control beyond agriculture and to numero...

Definition and Diagnosis of WS Genetic Disorder

difficulty grasping mathematical concepts (Fidler, Hodapp and Dyken, 2002). While not every child with WS fits this profile, a lar...

Discussion of Bioethics Involving Parents and Controlling an Unborn Child's Genetic Composition

in essence a mistake. The human genome mapping can now identify specifically which genes carry which genetic disorders; scientist...

Criminal Behavior and Genetics

severe form of antisocial behavior" (Liu, 2004, p. 93). Externalizing behavior can also include hyperactivity, and many hyperacti...

Genetic Diversity and Extinction

randomness of change, and then by the belief that evolution is shaped by changes in gene frequencies that are linked to concepts o...

Black Community and the Epidemic Proportions of Diabetes

cells that are responsible for producing insulin. Although it can develop at any age, it is described as juvenile onset because m...

Implantation and Genetics

a whole host of other problems, they are also equipped with the option to choose genetic composition such as gender. "We currentl...

An Article on Genetic Testing Reviewed

risk factor, or to become vigilant in getting periodic tests, in the hopes of catching the disease in its early stages; however, t...

Natural Selection and Genetic Drift / Quick Change, Quicker Reversal

In ten pages this paper discusses quick shifts in support of genetic drift as opposed to natural selection in science. Eight sour...

A Genetic Enhancement Examination

Parents using genetic enhancement to pick physical and intellectual features of their children form the basis of this paper of nin...

Law and Genetic Testing

her family through the National Association for the Self-Employed (Schulman 16). As coordinator of the Fragile-X Center f...

2 Case Studies on Prevention Through Genetic Screening

In seventy pages this paper discusses World Health Organization and other genetic screening programs with a case study focus upon ...

Trio of Journal Articles Compared

Model also incorporates the determination of personality traits, including introversion-extroversion, but further seeks to also de...

Genetic Predetermination and the Actions of Adolf Hitler

In fifteen pages this paper speculates on whether or not genetic predisposition could explain Hitler's actioins and what role if a...

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...

Ethics of Gene Therapy

have become capable of changing genets. Genetic research is the latest large area of study in the broader field of genetics. While...

Stating the Case for Genetic Predisposition and Alcoholism

In a paper consisting of five pages the genetic studies are compared with behavioral and environmental studies to conclude that al...

Psychology and Scientific Materialism's Impact

In ten pages this paper discusses how psychology has been impacted by scientific materialism reliance with a consideration of chil...

Bipolar Disorder Causes

In six pages genetic and environmental factors as they relate to the causes of manic depression or bipolar disorder are examined. ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

educators would wonder why so many children have this disorder. It would also seem that some would wonder if many of the individua...