What is the Human Genome Project? To understand the HGP one must know what a genome is. A genome is all the DNA in an organism including its genes. The genes carry information for making all the proteins needed by all organisms. The proteins establish what the organisms look like, how it fights infe...

Deoxyribonucleic Acid, DNA for short, is a molecule that has been one of the biggest mysteries of modern science. What is its structure? Does it contain the genetic code and if it does how is it used? These are some of the questions that puzzled scientist in the early fifties. Many scientists tried ...

Theories Of The UniverseIn Stephen Hawking's essay "Is Everything Determined?" he discusses his thoughts on how things are determined in society. Arguments arose in recent times that determinism has been based on science. It almost seems as if a set of laws exist that govern how the universe devel...

Erwin ChargaffErwin Chargaff, born 1905 in Czernowiz, Austria, was a pioneer in biochemistrycontributing to the understanding of DNA. He, in 1928, earned his doctoral degree inchemistry at the University of Vienna's Spath's Institute in 1928. Erwin began his careerin biochemistry at Yale Universit...

Rosalind Franklin was born in London, England on July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty. She was raised in a well-to-do Jewish family and that provided her with an exceptional educational back round in Physics and Chemistry at St. Paul's Girls' School and Cambridge University. Franklin pro...

Secrets of a Salty Survivor The Dead Sea is known for its high salt concentration which inhibits life for most organisms. The high salt concentration damages the organism's DNA by depriving the cell from the water they need to keep the structure of its double helix, leading to a faulty DNA s...

The Family Curse Every family has a curse, and mine is no different. My father's bloodline carries PKD: Polycystic Kidney Disease. I did not ask to be born with it, just as my father had not, but genetics had other ideas. This disease has taken my grandfather and my father's health. At the...

A Feminist Encounter of the Eleventy-Billionth Kind... Whoa...In the distant future of a parallel universe to the first star on the right and straight on til' something, there is an alternate Earth, or, as the inhabitants of the planet call it, U.T.E.R.U.S.(P.), the acronym standing for; Utopia Tan...

On February 22, 1996, Ian Wilmut brought cloning of animals to our attention, when the first animal was successfully cloned, on that history-making day the cloned sheep named Dolly was born. Wilmut took a cell from the udder of a six-year -old ewe and sparked a jolt of electricity to fuse it to the...

I. Description A. Nature of Work Marine Biology also refers to Biological Sciences or Biological Oceanography. Marine Science is the general term for research conducted in oceans and coastal or inland waters connected to the sea. This particular field is probably the best known to the public. Marine...

Genetic Research Genetic engineering is the directed alteration of genetic material by intervention in genetic processes (Webster's 9th New Collegiate Dictionary). Genetic engineering is a controversial subject. Some people think that it is necessary while others think that it is harmf...

INTELLIGENT DESIGN: A VALID THEORY? The term natural selection was discovered by Charles Darwin in his search for the way in which life and is processes evolved. The result of his studies has caused much debate throughout science. The concept created by Darwin is the theory of evolution, ...

Genetic Catastrophe "While the 20th century was shaped largely by spectacular breakthroughs in the field of physics and chemistry, the 21st century will belong to the biological sciences. Scientists around the world are quickly deciphering the genetic code of life, unlocking the mystery of b...

Fingerprints are the one thing that is unique on every single human being. Even twins, though they share the same DNA, have different fingerprints. Fingerprints offer an infallible means of personal identification that can make any case a "slam dunk." Though they've been used for...

Sometime during our lives, we've questioned ourselves at one point just how long has the earth existed and how did life begin? Our Biology book written by: Solomon, Berg, and Martin, shows theories that has taught us that earth is approximately 4.6 billion years old, and the earliest pieces of li...

Genetically Modified Soybeans Roundup Ready Soybeans are soybeans made to maximize the herbicide ability of a spray called Roundup Glyphosate is the active or main ingredient in Roundup. Glyphosate or phosphonomethylglycine, is a white, odorless solid that dissolves in water ("Some Food for F...

In The Double Helix, a reader can find James D. Watson\'s first-hand accounts of the competitive race in science that led to the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule. The DNA research Watson and his colleagues took part in demanded knowledge in many areas of expertise, but the most critic...

Cons of CloningMany people think that cloning is pretty cool. However some think this without really thinking about the consequences. People against cloning have their thoughts too, but, nevertheless, still don't know about the risk of cloning humans and animals. So what is really involved in the ...

Biology Assignment Frederick Griffith is a scientist that was trying to discover a vaccine for pneumonia. The reason for his experiment was to see if injections of heat killed virulent bacteria would kill the mice. He found that the mixture of live non-virulent bacteria and heat-killed bacteria...

Twenty years ago, scientists only theorized that they could modify living organisms. However, what was once only science fiction is becoming today\'s reality. Genetic Engineering can always be an advantage to someone. Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, stated that \"not t...

People Doing Science: The Double Helix (The discovery of DNA's Double Helix) The Double Helix tells the story of the discovery of DNA's structure as seen through the eyes of the author, James D. Watson. The book starts in the fall of 1951 with Watson, an American postdoctoral fellow, arrivi...

Cloning has been a very controversial subject all around the world for almost a little over 10 years. Many people either support this subject or oppose it strongly. There are many pros and cons that go along with cloning. In my personal opinion, I think that the United States should not allow human...

Webster's Dictionary defines the word cloning, as a noun: A cell, group of cells, or organism that are descended from and genetically identical to a single common ancestor, such as a bacterial colony whose members arose from a single original cell, or an organism descended asexually from a single an...

The film Gattaca explores the possibility of genetic predetermination in humans. It may create social and cultural advantages and help humans achieve lifelong goals. However, there are more negative effects of genetic predetermination than positive. Genetically predetermined humans are separated fro...

As a nation, we are constantly trying to increase the amount of goods we produce and the amount of time they are able to last. From adding preservatives to our food, to injecting cows with hormones to increase their size, to even larger gas tanks on our cars for better gas mileage. We can genetica...