Gene Tunney

Have you ever imagined the world with an identical copy of you? If you have you know it can be a terrifying thought. Duplicating ones – self would be walking in a world of no individuality. The world would lack diversity if nobody ever had the chance to be unique. Scientists are fascinated with the idea of cloning. You may ask, what is cloning? Cloning is the production of an organism with genetic material identical to that of another organism (Seidel 1).One’s physical character and behavioral…

aeruginosa as measured by a Miller (beta-galactosidase) assay. I will test the reporter strains PlacP1-lacZ to confirm that pJN105 does not affect transcription of Vfr, another gene involved in T3SS regulation. I will also examine the activity of transcriptional reporters for the exsD, rsmY, and rsmZ genes to confirm that these genes are reciprocally affected by the plasmid, as previously observed. PexsD-lacZ activity should decrease when carrying an empty vector and PrsmY-lacZ activity…

Gene Therapy: The concept of gene therapy emerged in the 1970s. The basic premise of gene therapy is using DNA enclosed in a vector as a therapeutic treatment for diseases. In the decades after it was conceptualized, many clinical trials of gene therapy were developed but stalled in phase I or phase II. During the 90s, only 1% of gene therapy trials made it to phase III and none of them went past phase III. The excitement for gene therapy was reduced when a participant of a clinical trial died…

mutations, gene flow, and non-random mating. Mutations involve a permanent change in the DNA sequence of an organism. Mutations can be beneficial, neutral, detrimental, or fatal to organisms. Mutations are passed on from parent to offspring and can cause evolution by increasing the size of the gene pool. Another mechanism of evolution is gene flow. Gene flow takes place when organisms immigrate or emigrate from a population permanently. This can can either increase or decrease in the gene pool…

that their study was constrained by the limited number of samples with appropriately preserved DNA and by the fact that mitochondrial DNA is inherently sex linked. They thus theorised that Neandertals may have possible contributed a small number of genes to contemporary humans, which may have been lost to genetic drift. Ghirotto, S., Tassi, F., Benazzo, A. & Barbujani, G. (2011). No evidence of Neandertal admixture in the mitochondrial genomes of early European modern humans and contemporary…

the world had a common origin and that any differences that one can see today are through genetic mutations that occur in the eggs or sperm of an organism. Different ways Evolution can occur is through Natural Selection, Genetic Drift, Bottlenecking, Gene Flow, Survival of the Fittest, and…

change the genes of an organism (AGRIC, 2015)
In Australia unless the Australian Gene Technology Regulator has concluded the Genetically Modified Organism, abbreviated as GMO is safe to human health as well as the environment it is not allowed to be handled. Other countries have similar regulators for GMO. 
Genetically engineering agricultural crops should be implemented as quickly as possible as it comes with various benefits for example it would result in lower prices and higher…

Within living things, exists DNA, which stores information and genetic coding. These genes are hereditary and therefore passed down through generations. Although this is incomparable to a bike, it can be compared to complex machinery such as computers. Computers are built of extremely complex coding which determines how the computer functions…

eating food. What are these foods you might ask? These harmful foods go by the name of Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMO’s. These relatively new organisms produced by mutating the natural genes are understudied and are in most cases unlabeled to the general public. Can we trust these GMO’s? Maybe not. Due to gene mutations, and the long term health effects, the use of GMO’s is risky and has a negative effect on the environment. As stated before, GMO’s are relatively new…

When genetic disorders are discussed, both in popular culture and in medicine, they are viewed as negative ways, and for obvious reasons: many genetic disorders, like the one Sierra has, can easily kill or seriously inhibit a person from living a “normal life.” Throughout recent medical history, there has been a lot of focus on learning new ways to control or treat certain genetic conditions. In fact, the entire discussion of how to treat genetic disorders can be brought back to our class…