Faculty of Medicine MAHSA UNIVERSITY STUDY GUIDE Block: Genetics‚ Immunology & Molecular Medicine (GIM) Session: 2013/2014 Semester 1 (Year 1) MBBS PROGRAM Block Coordinator: Dr Selvi Palasubramaniam CONTENTS 1. Teaching Staff & Contacts 2 2. Academic calendars MBBS Session 2013 / 2014 3 3
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Negative Although genetic engineering may seem like the key to a healthy‚ disease free population not enough is known about genetic engineering‚ and human genes to make it safe. The human genome is very complicated‚ often times one sequence of genes has control over multiple different physical attributes of a person‚ this means that by altering one gene sequence scientists could very easily accidentally alter multiple different attributes of humans. Also scientists have discovered that even when
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Anti-social Personality Disorder: Genetics vs. the Environment Jamie J. Lang Island Coast High School Anti-social Personality Disorder: Genetics vs. the Environment Anti-social Personality Disorder Anti-social personality refers to a psychological disorder in which a person lacks the ability to feel emotions such as empathy‚ remorse‚ and guilt. These people are often referred to as psychopaths and are dangerous to society because of their violent nature and abilities to overlook what is usually
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Genetic factors can cause individuals to be predisposed to develop an array of mental aliments. A shocking 40-60% of addiction vulnerable people can be linked to genetic factors (NIDA‚ 2008). The genetic factors arise from the nature vs nurture phenomenon‚ which looks at genetics vs environment and their interaction between both. Most mental illnesses began to show their first signs of existing during a person’s
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The majority of people that have Parkinson disease appear to be random cases‚ but new studies have shown that specific genetic defects may increase the chances of developing Parkinson disease. Ten “Parkinson Disease Genes” have been identified‚ but only three specific genes have been found to be directly related to causing Parkinson disease. Recent investigations in familial-linked Parkinson disease have found that mutations in α-synuclein‚ parkin and DJ-1 have been clearly linked to Parkinson
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these genes into the DNA of living organisms. This entire process is known as Genetic Engineering. Genetic engineers believe they can improve the foods we eat by doing this. For example‚ tomatoes are sensitive to frost. This shortens their growing season. Fish‚ on the other hand‚ survive in very cold water. Scientists identified a particular gene which enables a flounder to resist cold and used the technology of genetic engineering to insert this ’anti-freeze’ gene into a tomato. This makes it possible
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Human Genetic Disorders Research Report Hereditary Haemochrmatosis BIO3U Reuben D’Souza B2 Hereditary Haemochromatosis(can be spelled hemochromatosis)‚ is a genetic disorder that is characterized by improper processing by the body of dietary iron which causes iron to accumulate in a number of body tissues‚ eventually causing organ dysfunction. Early symptoms of the genetic disorder are somewhat unclear and vague‚ which makes it easy to mistake hemochromatosis for another condition.
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September 18‚ 2011 Period 8 AP Bio Ms. Dahle September 12‚ 2011 TITLE: Population Genetics and Evolution Within a Gene Pool INTRODUCTION: The Hardy-Weinberg scheme is a way of viewing evolution as changes in the frequency of alleles in a population of organisms. If A and a are alleles for a particular gene and each individual has two alleles then p is the frequency of the A allele and q is the frequency of a alleles. The frequency of the possible diploid combinations is expressed in the equation
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has previously stated that social context was critical to personality development and that we acquire behaviours through influence by observing others. This learning theory of modeling showed that children can learn to produce aggressive responses if deemed socially acceptable in their environment. But is there an underlying genetic basis for violence and aggression? In some very real sense violence is embodied in the human genetic/evolutionary legacy due to its recurrent manifestation in our species
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Ch. 18. viral and bacterial genetics Virus Not living‚ nucleic acids and proteins Viriods and prions Viriods: Single stranded circular Rna Prions: only protein Bacteria Living‚ prokaryotes 1 Seven characteristics common to life Cells and organization Energy use Respond to environmental change Regulation and homeostasis Growth and development Reproduction Change over the course of generations 2 Viruses Over 4‚000 different types of viruses Virus have their
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