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Why study genetics?

Why study genetics?. It has a profound effect on your life!. #1. You are a product of half of your mother’s genes and half of your father’s genes—a unique combination (unless you are an identical twin). #Health care and medicine. Some diseases are caused by a mutation in a single gene Rare

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Why study genetics?

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  1. Why study genetics? It has a profound effect on your life!

  2. #1 • You are a product of half of your mother’s genes and half of your father’s genes—a unique combination (unless you are an identical twin)

  3. #Health care and medicine • Some diseases are caused by a mutation in a single gene • Rare • Risk of inheritance can be predicted

  4. res • Many diseases have a genetic basis but are affected by environment. • Many cancers • Heart disease • Obesity • diabetes

  5. p • Some medicine is produced using biotechnology • Insulin • Human growth hormone

  6. Some diseases like high blood pressure respond differently to medications based on genetics • African-Americans and high blood pressure

  7. Agriculture • Genetically modified food • Animals fed supplements and hormones

  8. Establishing Identity and ancestry • Forensics • Murder • Rape • Exoneration

  9. Identity • Plane crashes • War • Mass graves • 9/11

  10. Ancestry • Adopted children • example

  11. ecology • Sequencing all the DNA in a habitat • Human large intestine • Soil • ocean

  12. NIH Human Microbiome Project defines normal bacterial makeup of the body

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