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Genetic Predisposition and Alcoholism

In five pages alcoholism is examined from a genetic perspective and psychological and biological aspects are employed as supportiv...

Blame and Credit for Genetic Engineering

people who use what science has discovered that do wrong. But, many believe that what scientists do in terms of genetic engineerin...

A Proposed Adolescent Alcohol Use Assessment

In eight pages the environmental and genetic causes of teen alcohol usage are featured prominently in this study proposal based up...

Patau's Syndrome: Trisomy 13

of their facial expressions are indicative of the condition, although the public often looks upon them as being somewhat unusual. ...

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...

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...

Rice That is Genetically Engineered

the problems they (I assume "they" is a team of scientists) encountered patenting the rice, and in making the technology freely av...

Future Possibilities of Foods That Are Genetically Engineered

engineered food crop, the "Flavr Savr" tomato, had made it to the buying public (The Economist, 1997). Early proponents o...

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,...

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...

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...

Controversy Over Genetic Engineering

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

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...

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...

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...

NBA Performance and Genetics

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

Genetic Disorder Marfan Syndrome

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

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...

Effects and Treatment of Phenylketonuria

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

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...

21st Century and Technology

long way in the past few decades. While once a pie in the sky idea, many women have birthed babies that have not belonged to them....

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...

Alcoholism and Children of Alcoholics

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

The Genetic Basis of Anxiety Disorders

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

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...

Controversy of Applying Genetic Engineering to Foods

the production of GE foods. Lastly, many of the same companies which produce GE pesticide resistant crops are the same companies w...

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...