genetics why your family is messed up?. gregor mendel father of modern genetics pea plants monk
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Epistasis
A gene at one location alters the phenotypic expression of a gene on a second location
Fur color
Recessively Inherited Traits
Must inherit genes from both parents to display trait
Albinism
Tay-Sachs
Cystic Fibrosis
Dominately Inherited Traits
Must inherit genes from only one parents to display trait
Achondroplasia
Huntington’s disease
Stem Cells
A Cell that’s job has not been determinedEarly embryonic Stem Cells
Blastocyst Embryonic Stem Cells
Fetal Stem Cells
Umbilical Stem Cells
Adult Stem Cells
Stem CellsFor each new application of stem cell technology, we must consider:What are the benefits? What are the risks? Whom will the technology help? Does it have the potential to hurt anyone? What does this mean for me? For my family? For others around me? Why might others not share my view?
Stem Cells
Ethical, legal and social issues.Ethical issues are those that ask us to consider the potential moral outcomes of stem cell technologies.
Legal issues require researchers and the public to help policymakers decide whether and how stem cell technologies should be regulated by the government.
Social issues involve the impact of stem cell technologies on society as a whole.