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    Meeting additional requirements for children’s care and learning development. P1 Additional needs is a person with a physical‚ communication‚ sensory‚ behavioural or learning disability‚ or long-term/life-limiting condition. This can also include those with emotional health and wellbeing needs which puts an impact on their daily life including the even more significant mental health problems. Downs syndrome: Downs syndrome is a chromosomal disorder caused by a fault in cell division which

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    Running head: WATSON ’S THEORY OF HUMAN CARING Watson ’s Theory of Human Caring Amber Carter University of Phoenix Watson ’s Theory of Human Caring Introduction The purpose of this paper is to take an in-depth look of Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring. I will describe a caring moment that I have had with a patient in the past and I will describe how Watson’s carative factors were utilized in the transpersonal relationship. Watson has a total of ten carative factors

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    Gregor Mendel Gregor Mendel was a nineteenth-century Austrian monk who is widely regarded as being the founder of genetics in modern science. There had been existing knowledge that crossbreeding plants and animals could enable the desired characteristics to be passed on. However‚ it was his groundbreaking discoveries he made via pea plant experiments conducted by him over 1856 to 1863 that showed how certain traits are passed on to next generation. Over this time period he is said to have tested

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    Antibiotics are medications used to kill or prevent the spread of disease causing bacteria in the body. There are two types of antibiotics which manage infectious diseases differently: 1. Bactericidal Antibiotics: this is when the antibiotic completely kills off the Bacteria. It does this by damaging or interfering with the bacteria’s cell contents or wall. An example of this type of antibiotic is Penicillin which is in fact the first type of antibiotic to be discovered. 2. Bacteriostatic Antibiotics:

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    Part A: Summary The author‚ Yann Joly‚ supports their argument against legislation to protect genetic rights with three main points. The first point that the article mentions is that genetic discrimination cannot be “accurately described as a widespread practice within the life-insurance industry.” The author supports this with the fact that the practice of genetic discrimination has been found only in the context of Huntington’s disease‚ this being discovered after more than twenty years of trying

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    Genes are found in our chromosomes and parents pass these on to offspring in their sex cells. Different versions of the same gene are called alleles‚ and these can determine features such as eye colour‚ and the inheritance of disorders such as cystic fibrosis. DNA You will remember from your Key Stage 3 studies that the nucleus controls the activities of a cell. The instructions for how an organism develops are found in the nuclei of its cells Chromosomes Chromosomes are structures found in the

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    Mouse never gets fluid infections in the lungs. The cause of cystic fibrosis. What is cystic fibrosis? Cystic fibrosis is a disease affecting the respiratory system. It causes the production of abnormally thick mucus. Rats are 37% effective in identifying what causes cancer to humans. 30 HIV vaccines‚ 33 spinal cord damage drugs‚ none of them

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      When genes are inserted into lung cells of cystic fibrosis patients‚ this kind of treatment is referred to as _______________.  gene therapy 29.  Combining the DNA of two different organisms is called ______________ cloning.  transgenic 30.  Plasmids or viruses can serve as _______________ to carry foreign DNA into the host cell.  vectors 31.  When the method is perfected‚ it will be possible to transfer "healthy" genes into cystic fibrosis patients via aerosol inhalants to "cure" this

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    mutations can be neutral and show no effect in human; it may be beneficial; but also it can cause a disease. Different diseases are being inherited through different patterns. Huntington ’s disease is inherited through Autosomal dominant pattern; cystic fibrosis – through autosomal recessive; Rett ’s syndrome – through X-Linked Dominant; Haemophilia A – through X-Linked recessive [ref. Heidi Chial‚ Ph.D; 2008] It is important to know inheritance patterns to acknowledge how disease is transmitted‚ also

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    The most important component of the respiratory tract’s defense mechanism is the clearance of mucus from our airways and other parts of our respiratory system‚ including the lungs. With cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator and other channels‚ chloride and sodium are able to flow out of the cell‚ allowing water to leave the cell and into the mucus layer to keep it thin and fluid. Because of this‚ our respiratory tract is able to

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