Same Rhine Genetics Lab Report

Same Rhine Genetics Update Conference After the conference, I learn that quantitative human traits are easily quantify because of the continuous distribution in a population. Some example are height, weight, blood glucose level and common disease which are model by a bell shaped curve where most people falls in the average region. In the flipping pennies model, polygenes are addictive or cumulative and reassortment is the mixing of genes and genetic material from parents into new combinations of genes in their offspring. Polygenes reassert every generation yielding thousands of new and unique possibilities. I also discover that in human genetics, there are variants meaning millions of differences among individuals in a population. One type of variants is the Single Nucleotide Polymorphism or SNPs which is found in greater than 1% of the population. Another variants is Copy Number Polymorphisms or CNPs also found in greater than 1% of the population. This mean that we all technically 99.6% identical in our DNA sequence and only .4% is where we are different cause by the variants. Stems cells are capable of becoming another more differentiated cell type in the body. It has a unique ability to self-renew with unique
I really enjoy listening to Professor Rhine lecture and it kind of makes me want to go into the field of genetic. The one thing I would love to share with someone else about what I learned is the pluripotent stem cells in therapeutic cloning. These cells can give rise to all cells in the body with the exception of the embryo. This means that they can potentially treat diseases in any body organs or tissue by replacing damaged and dysfunctional cells. This is great advantage to this type of therapy because the risk of immunological rejection is alleviated because the patient’s own genetic material is