Recently, there’s a new technology which is, you can design your own baby by altering the genes of an embryo. I just want to know the health risk or disease that the genetically modified child might face in future.
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Not to say that because your parents are smart, you will be, but is there a mental capacity or relativeness to the offspring and parents? Almost everything else in our body is inherited.
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I’m writing a paper in Political Science about making the government budget smaller and as part of my paper I need to find out how many jobs it would cut and so on. So where would I find that information?
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I am the only person in my family with blue eyes. The only person I have found looking back is my great great grandmother on my mothers side, the rest of my family has brown or hazel eyes. What are the chances of this happening? How does eye color work?
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theres only 20 schools in the US and Canada that offer a genetics undergrad major, so i was wondering what other majors would be good for a genetics career.
also, good school reccomendations for such majors would be ideal. i can’t seem to find any straightforward information on genetic schooling and schools.
thank you so much!!
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We see the Holocaust, Virginia Tech shooting, and terrorist attacks and see the original intent of the perpetrators. We can see their history and the world they grew up in, and perhaps their actions become humanized in the process. Were these people bound to perform these actions because of how they grew up? To what extent are parents, friends, religion influential to peoples actions? Is there a factor outside of the two listed in the question?
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If a person developed breast cancer at an early age and they do not have a family history of cancer is it possible that they can test positive on BRCA!/2 testing? And only serious answers please.
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hi everyone, I searched this term and only one page, on the entire world wide web showed up!
I am learning about heritability and how it is a proportion- apparently, an heritability of 1 gives the environmentabilty of a trait-
I dont know what that means- can anyone help me?
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Often I conduct my own experiments on the cats if I know they are going to die soon and we are finished with them. I deal mostly with neurology so I like to see how the cat reacts when I remove certain pieces of it’s brain. I also just like to have fun by sticking electrodes in the cat’s brain and observing how different types of shocks affect their muscles. Tell me is there anything wrong with this? It shouldn’t matter if the cat is going to die anyway?
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Does hereditary and genetics have anything to do wiht getting ur period and developing? Because my mom got hers at 16. Will I too?
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You know WS, current data indicates that the human race (Homo sapiens) MAY have originated in east Africa in the general region of the Rift Valley of Ethiopia/Kenya/Tanzania/Somalia. The oldest fossils of human ancestors (not exactly Homo sapiens, but other species which further developed to Homo sapiens). Also many of the oldest civilizations have origins in that region of the World as well. this has led scientists to speculate that Africa was the original source of origin of humans. However, it should be noted that much of the data have yet to be discovered and there are other sources of data which do have some conflict with the prevailing theories. Most notably, there have been fossils of Homo sapiens AND pre-sapiens creatures discovered in the Caucasus region of southern Asia and the Gobi Desert of western China, which are millions of years old. I am pretty sure that this is a question which shall remain unanswered for quite some time to come as more and more data are discovered around the globe. They are trying to form a picture of a jigsaw puzzle, having only a few of the genuine pieces of the puzzle to work with. The finished picture may be the Eiffel Tower or it may just be some kids erector set. More information is needed to see how those fit into the puzzle that we THINK may be the true picture.
Brightest Blessings,
Raji the Green Witch
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I wanted to know because of my two parents, both are, truth be told, not in the best physical shape; in fact, my whole family is not particularly athletic at all. I wondered if having parents who were weak and fat would make it harder for me to become muscular and slim. That’s made me really discouraged the past few weeks. Anyone have any scientific knowledge on that stuff?
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