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Human Nature and Selfishness

that mankind is hardwired for selfishness and are a slave to these drives whether we understand or are cognizant of them in the fi...

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...

The Phenomenon Known as Ageing

increased number of T cells with identical phenotypes which are found in the elderly....

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...

Controversy Over Genetic Engineering

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Epithelial Uptake, Genetic Defects, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

In eight pages this paper discusses how an invasion of epithelial cells cannot be undertaken by Pseudomonas aeruginosa because of...

Overview of Gene Therapy

In seven pages this paper examines how genetic and terminal diseases can be combatted through the use of gene therapy. There is t...

Genetics Revolution and Ethics

In four pages this paper discusses genetic research from an ethical perspective. There is no bibliography included....

Genetics and Homosexuality

In twelve pages this paper examines homosexuality in a consideration of social, psychological and genetic aspects. There are more...

AIDS Treatment and Research Improvements

In four pages this research paper considers how the research on AIDS has led to improved genetic and drug treatments with other is...

Environmental versus Genetic Factors in the Ongoing Alzheimer's Debate

In ten pages the two arguments featured in continued Alzheimer's debate are considered and reveal genetic theory support increasin...

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...

Food and Genetic Engineering

through plant breeding through many generations of plants. One says, "that organic potato or ear of corn you so lovingly nurtured...

Disability, Eugenics, and Repeating History

In eight pages the Human Genome Project is examined in terms of the genetic controversy and considers whether identification of di...

Human Development and the Ongoing Debate of Nurture v. Nature

In five pages this report discuses the human development debate in a consideration of how little is actually known regarding genet...

Aristotle's Perspectives on Genetic Engineering's Ethics

In four pages Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics are applied to an examination of genetic engineering. Two sources are cited in the b...

Genetic Cloning and Social Considerations

In five pages 'Dolly' technology and the social and moral impacts of genetic cloning are analyzed. Five sources are cited in the...

Cloning, Genetic Engineering, and Embryonic Research

In eight pages cloning and genetic engineering are explored within the context of the ongoing embryonic research controversy. Six...

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...