Human traits

Should people be allowed to use gene therapy to enhance basic human traits such as height, intelligence, or athletic ability ... 

It is common for a witness to recall additional information after the interview is over. Astute investigators anticipate this human trait and provide a clearly understood and easily accomplished mechanism for the witness to contact the interviewer later. Always close an interview by inviting the witness to return or contact the investigator if he remembers something else, or would like to otherwise modify or add to the interview results. Provide the investigator s contact information to the witness. 

The study of genes that determine human traits is very topical and not without controversy. Identification of genes that comprise the human genome, their function, and their ability to predict disease or a predisposition to disease is central to this research. However, because genetic material in one individual is shared by biological relatives, privacy and confidentiality affect not just the individual who may wish to consent to research participation. The effects of such research and how... 

Curiosity is one of the most important human traits. Small children constantly ask "why ". As we get older, our questions become more complex, but the curiosity remains. 

SNPs and small insertions or deletions (grouped togetlier as SNPs) aie the largest set of sequence variants in most organisms. They enable the identification (respectively, localization) of human traits, QTLs and disease traits.SNPs spaced at distances of 30 kb al-... 

Aggressiveness is viewed as a universal human trait, present long before human beings developed language and reasoning. The lives of early human beings, like other primates, were driven by fear. It was necessary to be selfish, aggressive, and combative to survive (Wade, 2007). 

Aggression has been related to specific biochemical processes in the brain. Can this type of research now be expanded to include the study of violence, assault, rape, robbery, homicide, suicide, child and elder abuse, and war Should we search for modifiable molecular manifestations of these undesirable human traits Should not biology join psychological, cultural, and political studies of war, to try to find out whether understanding of molecular processes in the brain might someday help decrease violence and war ... 

The genetic abnormalities in Down syndrome involve dominant genes. Hundreds of abnormal human traits are related to dominant inheritance, whereas an equal number are recessive. An example of the latter is sickle cell anemia, a disease in which an abnormal recessive gene is inherited from each parent. If one parent does not have the recessive gene, the child will carry the sickle-cell trait, but not symptoms and signs of the disease. 

Ridley, Matt. Francis Crick Discoverer of the Genetic Code. New York Atlas Books/HarperCollins, 2006. This is a brief biography emphasizing the major discoveries and human traits of Francis Crick. 

History is important because by knowing our past we can better understand our present and, thus, better predict the future. It has been said that man is the only animal that trips twice over the same stone thus knowing history can help us avoid this characteristically human trait. 

Atopic diathesis is indubitably a common human trait, but several factors make it difficult to obtain an absolutely accurate measurement of its true frequency (1) differences in definition of the state and of individual diseases that accompany it (2) significant influences of race, sex, and environmental factors in the production of clinical disease (3) the natural history of the individual conditions, with remissions and exacerbations, means that prevalence figures at any given time underestimate the number of patients actually at risk and (4) symptoms occurring in early life are often not recognized as atopic. However, one can estimate that at least one in five Western individuals will have experienced at least one atopic disorder by the age of twenty. The frequency of positive skin tests, with or without symptoms, indicates that about a third of the population carry the atopic predisposition (Davis, 1976 Godfrey and Griffiths, 1976). 

The domino theory of injuries listed five steps that lead to injury. In was first the environmental and social climate and ancestry that allowed the second step of human error to develop. This error in turn led to unsafe acts or mechanical and physical hazards. These acts or hazards then allowed an accident to occur, and then some accidents produced injury. Undesirable human traits such as nervousness were either inherited or created and exacerbated by their environment. These traits created human faults that then allowed unsafe acts such as not wearing protective gloves, or even engineered oversight of the need for machine guarding (Heinrich et al., 1980). Dr. Haddon was removing the fifth step of injury occurrence. Today s efforts of ergonomic control also attempt to remove the possibility of an error as well. 

While most of the human tribes look down on the Tabrene as being inferiors—even a cancer to the planet—the Tabrene, in turn, look down on humans. (Traits.)... 

It is a common human trait to resist change more strongly as more effort is expended on a task, design, or product. We describe this as not wanting to abandon our investment in the activity. 

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