The Human Genome ProjectJoin now to read essay The Human Genome ProjectMarshall, Elizabeth L. The Human Genome Project: Cracking The Code Within Us.New York, New York: Franklin Watts, 1996. 1-128.Elizabeth L. Marshall was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She grew up in areas of southern California, and in parts of New York City. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, and is currently married and has two daughters. She attended and graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in English. She then graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Master of Fine Arts degree in fictional writing. She has worked form several scientific journals and magazines and is a member of the National Association of Science Writers. She has also written several well known books including Conquering Infertility: Medical Challenges and Moral Dilemmas, and High-Tech Harvest.
I chose this book because it seemed like an interesting topic, and because I thought it might help me understand more things about DNA. Someone else who read it said that it had a lot to do with the things we covered in class too so I figured it would be as good a choice as any.
This book is about the amazing task of mapping and showing all the sequences of the thousands and thousands of genes in the human body. The book is split up into nine chapters each of which covers a different aspect of this incredible project. The book tells all about almost every aspect of the project. It tells all about the project and what the point is, what has been accomplished so far, and when they expect it to be finished. According to the introduction the project is actually expected to be finished sometime this year.
The first chapter starts off with the basic structure of DNA and describes how the base pairing of each nucleotide creates each amino acid, which when all put together create a strand of DNA. It also gives an idea of who is working on the project. She lists several major cities where the project is being worked on and then goes on to explain how between all these different teams, who are all working on some different aspect of the project, there are also anywhere from 200 to 400 other smaller teams all around the country working on it. The next chapter is about chromosome 18, and how a slight mistake in it can cause things like mental retardation and deafness, and what they are trying to do to help stop or fix chromosome 18 deletion syndrome. The third chapter covers how the human genome project can benefit
The Final chapter is really what really gets us into the game, and it doesn’t take any time at all to think about genetic engineering. As we know more about genetics, a lot of people are wondering how the technology will work in humans. As we know more about the DNA, we have to understand how a gene works or how that gene can lead to certain diseases. So how do different groups and organisms have genes with one of these specific traits?
We now have a much better idea about how that is different than how that trait is expressed, but as we know more about how the environment controls genes a lot more, the idea is to actually use the environment to make specific changes to those genes, or so we are told. We may go back and look at gene expression in the human genome, and even more, we may look at genetic variations of specific genes and make better measurements of that, or better understand how that variation is affected by different groups.
We were already in the midst of this process, when I read that, which we are still in the process of figuring out, but I started thinking about how all these groups all have the same genetic characteristics that we do. This is not just a genetic trait. I think that this also encompasses a person’s genetic makeup as well. And our understanding of what those genetic characteristics are and how they relate to one another, makes it easier to understand how genetic changes are affecting individuals, as opposed to simply saying that there are a bunch of things going on in our environment that affect genes. And that would make us less worried about human longevity and some other diseases. But the other idea is to try and understand that this is not a single issue. It is a large group of individuals like us all have certain patterns that we want to see in our population where we would like to see such patterns. We are all looking for such patterns to develop, and to make predictions about why. We are all looking for these patterns to develop over the course of a given period of time.
We already have those predictions, and we are thinking about how they could be improved, but they are not coming from just a single individual in a particular group of individuals, or a particular set of behaviors. It is simply a set of natural changes within it that have become predictable in some way. Such natural changes are what we all want to happen in the world, and what people want to see when they look at this sort of data. It was already suggested in the 1960s and 1970s in scientific jargon to come up with a prediction that we might go on the road to certain death the day after a genetic mutation, for example, or that humans could die the day from a stroke, or that a person who was exposed to certain pathogens could survive long. It was already described in the late 1800s, when scientists began to look at people in hospital, and in fact it became more and more controversial. It was pretty easy to get what some of these scientists were saying and even more controversial when they were discussing this. It had become a thing. You didn’t get to live for three or five years by taking a single person like Dr. Friede or Dr. Huisman or Dr. Sank