Hello everyone, I am in dire need of a topic for a genetics paper. The Paper must be five pages long, and must be about a specific thing. I have no clue what to do it on. It doesn't have to be about running at all. I just can't think of a topic, and my teacher refused to assign me one. Please help, thanks!
And you come here for ideas?
Your education is going well.
Since I have my genetics book here...How about sex-linked disease?
How about gene enhancement (gene doping) and the fairness issues it raises in professional sports. There is a lot of discussion on the Web about this you could use for research.
How about instead of looking at the immoral use of gene doping, you look at how it can be used to treat various diseases. For instance, in some labs they use retroviral gene therapies to treat neuromuscular disorders (eg. ALS) via continuous replication of genes for IGF1 and other growth factors. This would be an easy paper to write because there are so many directions you could go in. You could even start out with how athletes may try to use this to illegally enhance performance and then go into a more positive application of it.
Explain how genetic diseases that have infertility as a symptom are still in existence, since victims can't reproduce. See Turner's Syndrome.
Write it on the fugu fish (a puffer) which has somehow eliminated ALL of it's junk DNA from it's genome. then come back on and explain to me how the hell that could happen
Chips O'Toole wrote:
Explain how genetic diseases that have infertility as a symptom are still in existence, since victims can't reproduce. See Turner's Syndrome.
Dumb topic. Just because the syndrome/disease has genetic basis doesn't mean it must be passed on to the next generation for it to recur. Chromosomal (eg Turners) and gene abnormalities can occur spontaneously.
Genetics is a very broad topic. Narrow down your interests.
Of these topics, which are you most interested in:
evolution
development
medicine
biochemistry
Start with those and then go to a genetics textbook and browse chapters relating to your specific interest.
Good luck.
CSO
bad topic wrote:
Chips O'Toole wrote:Explain how genetic diseases that have infertility as a symptom are still in existence, since victims can't reproduce. See Turner's Syndrome.
Dumb topic. Just because the syndrome/disease has genetic basis doesn't mean it must be passed on to the next generation for it to recur. Chromosomal (eg Turners) and gene abnormalities can occur spontaneously.
I knew that. I was just seeing if you did. BTW what does chromosonal mean?
Androgen insensitivity, where you end up with XY "females." This can be a good topic because it give you a chance to look at some very interesting questions about development, about gender, and of course sports sociology. For example, should such a person compete as a woman?
Or, you could look at how in the sixties no one was sure whether femaleness resulted from two copies of X, and maleness from a single copy, with Y being irrelevant. Or, was the number of X chromosomes unimportant (so long as there was at least 1), and long as there was a Y you got a male and if no Y, a female? We all know the answer now, but this was a difficult question to answer in those days ... look up Klinefelter's and Turner's syndromes, because they (and the development of karytyping) gave the answer. This one can be good because you get to talk about two equally reasonable hypotheses in a time when no one could gather evidence either way ... enter karotyping ... find XO and XXY individuals...it all comes together.
When I was a college professor I always favored papers in which the student showed a sense of history, talked about unsolved problems, the evidence that had been needed to solve them or at least get part way there, how the evidence finally turned up, and what was done with it.
Do it on Gene Therapy. I did a paper on it and its easy to find info online.
do a paper on the pros/cons of gene patenting.
How the Africans are genetically superior for running....
Use an argument for genetic evolution to undermine the biblical account of creation in the book of Genesis. Your liberal professor will eat the shit up whether it's good or not.
How about the possibilities of genetic descrimination? Watch the movie Gattaca to get you started.
"Charles Darwin" said "Use an argument for genetic evolution to undermine the biblical account of creation in the book of Genesis. Your liberal professor will eat the shit up whether it's good or not."
Chuck, baby. Better he should write a paper on preformationism and hand it in to your reactionary bible-thumping mail-order degree professor, who, if he can read it, will just love it.
The OP will need to make sure he discusses the doctrine of encapsulation -- just the thing for the likes of you. Don't bother responding until you can describe the links between encapsulation and genesis.
SMJO wrote:
How the Africans are genetically superior for running....
How Humans are genetically suited to running, but Americans waste their genetic potential (natural talent) whilst Kenyans use their's to good effect.
answers in genesis wrote:
The OP will need to make sure he discusses the doctrine of encapsulation -- just the thing for the likes of you. Don't bother responding until you can describe the links between encapsulation and genesis.
Ooooh, encapsulation. That's a mighty big word to just be throwing around like that. Sounds like you might have heard something in your programming classes that you are inclined to regurgitate on letsrun because your professor impressed you with it.
By the way, why is it that people have such a myopic view of everything that evolution and creation need be mutually exclusive?
Charles Darwin wrote:
why is it that people have such a myopic view of everything that evolution and creation need be mutually exclusive?
The Chronology as written in the Bible shows us the World is 6000 years old. So God must have created the fossil as a practical joke to fool us.