Essays on Genetics

Although the advancement of modern day technology can be hugely beneficial, it can also result in negative repercussions that impact not only mankind, but all species living on this planet. De-extinction, in particular, carries extreme importance as it allows for the reintroduction of historically extinct...

I do not think that it’s okay for scientists to come up with gene doping for anybody, especially athletes because in the future they will be messing with natural human body and the human body is supposed to be a process of a natural evolution....

Globally we face escalating demand on food production due to an increasing population, a greater consumption of animal products as affluence grows and increasing biofuel consumption. By 2050 global food production needs to increase by approximately 60%. When combined with the ongoing effects of climate...

Ovarian cancer is amongst the deadliest cancers. It is the most widely recognized gynecological malignancy, third driving after cervical and uterine disease. Momenimovahed et al. (2018) states that it has the most elevated death rate and worst prognosis. While ovarian disease has the lowest prevalence...

Genetically modified (GM) crops have consistently increased recently. In 1994, the first commercial genetically modified crops were planted. A significant area of GM crops was planted which was approximately 1.66 million hectares in 1996. Since 1996, there has been a large increase in planting, and...

To begin with, those who argue that psychopaths are born may refer to the study conducted by the scientists from ‘the Kings College London’s Institute of Psychiatry’ in which magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans used to assess the levels of grey matter in the sixty-six...

Psychopathy is traditionally defined as a personality disorder characterised by persistent antisocial behaviour, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, egotistical traits. There have long been discussions about whether a psychopath is born or made, by which the suggestion is that a person has either...

Traveling into outer space and seeing the earth from an entirely different perspective sounds so exciting. However, once they leave the earth’s magnetic field, astronauts are exposed to radiation from the sun and other galaxies. This radiation is a made up of high-energy particles, high-energy...

Motor neuron diseases (MNDs) are a group of neurodegenerative diseases with progressive degeneration of motor neurons (MNs) that lead to muscle weaknesses, loss of ambulation, and chronic disability, ultimately causing premature death in patients (Cappella et al., 2019). Two representative examples are spinal muscular atrophy...

The purpose of the investigation was to examine the correlation of enzyme production in response to the evolutionary impact of AMY1 gene copy numbers in individuals. Based upon research obtained in previous studies, there was an assumed positive correlation between gene copy numbers and the...