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Prenatal Essays and Term Papers
Endocrine DisruptorsDuring recent years, numerous newspaper and magazine articles have suggested that humans may be at risk because small amounts of well known environmental contaminants, such as dioxin, PCBs and DDT, can affect hormone levels. Hormones are produced by the endocrine system as regulators of biological ...
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Cloning 7Genetic engineering, altering the inherited characteristics of an
organism in a predetermined way, by introducing into it a piece of the
genetic material of another organism. Genetic engineering offers the
hope of cures for many inherited diseases, once the problem of low
efficiencies of ...
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CloningGenetic engineering, altering the inherited characteristics of an organism in a
predetermined way, by introducing into it a piece of the genetic material of
another organism. Genetic engineering offers the hope of cures for many
inherited diseases, once the problem of low efficiencies of ...
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The Influence Of Parents On Their Children's Sexual OrientationDo parents influence their children's sexuality? The answer may
surprise you: no they do not. It has been found that about 90% of sons of gay
fathers are heterosexual (Bailey 124). It was also found that 90% of daughters
of lesbian women are also heterosexual (Golombok 4). According to a poll ...
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Huntington's Disease, or Huntngton's chorea, is a genetic disease that
causes selective neural cell death, which results in chorea, or irregular,
jerking movements of the limbs caused by involuntary muscle contractions, and
dementia. It can cause a lack of concentration and depression. It also may
cause atrophy of ...
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Is There Evidence That Homosexuality Is Biologically Determined??
Understanding homosexuality is a challenge for many people.
Determining what factor(s) cause it is complicated in itself. Several
experiments and tests have already been conducted to determine the factors
that influence homosexuality. However, opposing views arise to challenge
the results. ...
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Down Syndrome ReportThe chromosomal abnormality involved in most cases of Down syndrome is
trisomy-21, or the presence of three copies of the 21st chromosome. As a result,
the affected person has 47 chromosomes in all body cells instead of the normal
46, although how this causes the condition's symptoms is not yet ...
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Teens And SmokingAbstract
Cigarette smoking is of interest to the National Institute on Drug Abuse both
because of the public health problems associated with this form of substance
abuse and because this behavior represents a prototypic dependence process. In
the past few years the government has made every ...
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Endocrine DisruptorsDuring recent years, numerous newspaper and magazine articles have suggested that humans may be at risk because small amounts of well known environmental contaminants, such as dioxin, PCBs and DDT, can affect hormone levels. Hormones are produced by the endocrine system as regulators of biological ...
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AddAttention deficit disorder is a condition characterized by the attention span that is less than expected for the age of the person. There is often age inappropirate hyperactivity and impulsivness. Attention deficit disorder is broken down in three sub catergories. Attention disorder dificit / ...
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Muscular Dystrophyrefers to, not one, but a group of muscle diseases. These diseases have three features in common: they are hereditary; they are progressive; and each causes a characteristic and selective pattern of weakness. Duchenne (DMD) is the most prevalent and severe childhood form of this group of ...
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Multiple Birthsare rare in humans with twins as being the most common form
of this event. can arise in many different combinations of ways
but the probability of giving birth to more than one child remains fairly
constant when compared to the entire human race. The chances of
can also vary from race and ...
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The Fabry DiseaseClassification
is a hereditary disorder, caused by the lack of
alphagalactosidase A. It is an x-linked recessive inheritance. Therefore it is
the females that carry it. The ones who are mostly affected by this disease are
the males. Female carriers, though, may develop angiokeratomas and may ...
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Fetal Alcohol SyndromeThe essay “” by Michael Dorris explores Fetal Alcohol Effects which is problem running rampant and out of control all across America. (FAS) is a grouping of defects that may occur in infants born to women who drink alcohol during pregnancy. Michael Dorris states that FAS is a birth defect ...
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SmokingThe first article for review is titled Self-efficacy, Health Locus of
Control, and . This article studies how the participants confidence
levels and health locus prior to entering treatment predicts results of the
quitting program. The program is called "Fresh Start" and was conducted ...
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Down Syndromeis a combination of birth defects including some degree of mental retardation and characteristic facial features. It is also called trisomy 21. occurs when there is an abnormality in chromosome 21. It is found in approximately 1 out of 1000 all live births. Each year, 3,000 to 5,000 people ...
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So Close, So Far... Neglected“ “Child”: means a boy or a girl apparently or effectively aged less than eighteen years” (Van Stolk 146).
“Rich kids, middle-class kids, poor kids - all deal with risk and neglect on a scale unimagined in previous generations” (Hewitt 11). There are problems ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome 2A pregnant woman's lifestyle ultimately affects the development of her baby. Excessive exposure to alcohol during pregnancy can inflict serious, permanent physical and mental damage on her child. When a pregnant woman drinks alcohol she is making her child drink also. In knowing how Fetal ...
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Hemophilia 4Hemophilia is the best known of hemorrhagic disorders. When a person has hemophilia, the blood does not clot properly and bleeding persists. The people who have hemophilia are called hemophiliacs or bleeders. Bleeding disorders, such as hemophilia, result from a disruption of the body's ...
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