Film Analysis: Why Does Evolution Matter Now?

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Why does evolution matter now? The subject of this video is an explanation on how our understanding of evolution is crucial to our treating and surviving disease brought on by viruses, bacteria and other microbes we deal with in our everyday lives. The example that I felt was the most powerful in this film was the illustration on how a resistant strain tuberculosis outbreak in a prison in Russia can have an effect on a people half way around the globe, in this era of globalization that leaves us all vulnerable. The causes of this vulnerability was something new to me, when the film explained how evolution was caused by not taking all prescribed medications, thus allowing natural selection of an organism which evolve millions
Information that can be found at the HGP website include the following history and background about the HGP, Ethical/legal issues surrounding the work of the HGP, its application to medicine, published papers and teaching aids to aid with the education aspect of the HGP work, and the findings and application of the Gene-Gateway research work done by HGP. Three types of people who would find the information on the HGP website useful would be teachers, students, engineers, and those involved in medicine. A few of the many achievements of the HGP to date are the constructing of the most detailed comprehensive human genetic map, ultrasonic waves to break the DNA into fragments, which were then sequenced and reordered with computer software developed at TIGR. Determined Free-Living Bacteria viruses lacked genes for independent living and only replicate by using genetic information from the cells they infect. Although the project has achieved the goals set for itself it has set the additional goal of deriving meaningful knowledge from DNA sequences they discovered and finding beneficial applications in our daily