Designer Babies Genetics

Genetics is the study of heredity genes, and traits. Like how our parents' traits and genes are passed down to us. Chromosomes are the huge chunk of genes that wrapped around the proteins. Humans are supposed to have the total of 46 chromosomes. Females have XX chromosomes and males have XY chromosomes. Chromosomes are passed down to offspring, as well as, genes. Also, Genes are strands of DNA; they are like the instructions manuals for our body. Genes are the one that code for the traits. Dominant and recessive traits are the two types of traits are that passed down to the offspring. Usually the offspring show the dominant traits since this trait is a lot stronger than recessive traits. There is a less chance that the offspring will show the recessive traits. Since the recessive traits can only appear if the dominant traits are absent.

Designer Babies Picture a young couple in a waiting room looking through a catalogue together. This catalogue is a little different from what you might expect. In this catalogue, specific traits for babies are being sold to couples to help them create the "perfect baby." This may seem like a bizarre scenario, but it may not be too far off in the future. Designing babies using genetic enhancement is an issue that is gaining more and more attention in the news. This controversial issue, once thought to be only possible in the realm of science-fiction, is causing people to discuss the moral issues surrounding genetic enhancement and germ line engineering. Though genetic research can prove beneficial to learning how to prevent hereditary

While studying eugenics, genetics plays a detrimental role in determining heredity. Genetics is the study and behavior of genes ("Genetics"). These genes are encoded pieces of information that comes from both parents, these genes are found on any of the 23 pairs chromosomes; these chromosomes that contain genes form the human genome. 22 chromosomes all contain the same genes although slight variations of alleles, alleles are alternate forms of genes, and the 23rd chromosome contains the information for the zygote's gender.

Genes is the physical and functional unit of heredity which are made up of DNA. It carries the information of that determines traits that are passed on by the parents. There are two copies of genes which comes from each parents which is to be exact twenty chromosome from each parent to make up forty six chromosome in a baby. As by the

Background Information: Mitosis is one of two main methods of cell replication, the other being meiosis. It is “the simple duplication of a cell and all of its parts” resulting from the splitting of a cell. The ‘parent’ or original cell splits, duplicating its DNA (packaged in chromosomes) producing two ‘daughter’ or new cells with the same genetic code. There are four stages of mitosis; Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase and Telophase. Interphase is not an official phase of mitosis as the cell is at ‘rest’ and not being divided during this phase. It is often called one of the phases of mitosis as it is one of the stages in the life cycle of a cell; however it is not a phase of mitosis due to the fact that no division takes place.

Designer Babies Designing your child is becoming more and more popular as the discoveries progress. The excitement of what gender it will be will be gone. Recent discoveries are making "designing your child" a possibility. Whether it's a blessing or a curse is yet to be determined because it is in the early stages of this. Designer babies are not going to be used to their full potential therefor unless in dire need, they should not be used.

For the society of GATTACA to exist, there needs to be lots of technology/information that are necessary. The future of a society like GATTACA is not to far in the future. Some information that will be needed for a society like GATTACA to exist, is being able to identify what genes and traits a human has based on a blood sample, in the matter of a day. The technology of being able to create “Designer Babies”, needs to be available for a society like GATTACA to exist. Scientists and doctors will need to be able to have the ability to extract any imperfect genes from the sperm or the egg to prevent any imperfect traits of an offspring. Last in the movie GATTACA, they had the technology to determine one’s DNA sequence in the matter of minutes using a sample of them. This technology is a must if a GATTACA society ever existed.

Designer babies are created by an Embryo with IVF ( In-Vitro fertilization), then by removing a single cell from the embryo and testing the cell. Then the parents either decide if that is the perfect baby with the qualities that it wants and then implanted it inside the female's womb or try again.

Each person has approximately 100,000 billion cells in their body (Hartwell, Hunt, & Nurse, 2001) and each of these cells has a nucleus. In each cell’s nucleus there are chromosomes that are made up of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that make up of strands of genes and the genes are the coding or blue print of all our traits and features. One set of genes come from a person’s mother while the other set come from the persons father. The genes determine traits and features a person has such as eye color, hair color, and being able to roll your tongue. The set of genes that are inherited from each parent can either be dominant or recessive (Ignatavicius, D., & Workman, M., 2013). Dominate traits can be inherited from just one parent while recessive

The Masterton Family Gender of a child may not have much significance for some couples wanting a child, but this was not the case with the Masterton family.

How are phenotypes driven by DNA (inheritance in offspring) Genotype is the genetic make-up of an individual organism. It is the set of genes in our DNA which is responsible for a particular trait. Your genotype functions as a set of instructions for the growth and development of your body. Genotype is usually used when talking about the genetics of a particular trait such as eye color. Genotype is an inherited trait and hereditary information passed by the parents determines genotype. Genotypes can only be determined by biological tests, not observations. Phenotype is what you see. It is the observable physical or biochemical characteristics of an individual organism, determined by both genetic make-up and environmental influences. An example of phenotype would be a person’s

NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas LS3.A. Inheritance of Traits Each chromosome consists of a single very long DNA molecule, and each gene on the chromosome is a particular segment of that DNA. The instructions for forming species’ characteristics are carried in DNA. All cells in an organism have the same genetic content, but the genes used (expressed) by the cell may be regulated in different ways. Not all DNA codes for a protein; some segments of DNA are involved in regulatory or structural functions, and some have no as-yet known function.

Imagine if parents were able to select preferred traits and the intelligence level for their children. Soon this may be the case as scientists and researchers are slowly taking genetic engineering to a whole new level which jeopardizes the uniqueness of the human race. Genetic engineering has rapidly become hardwired into our society since its discovery in the late 1960s. The process involves removing DNA from an organism and modifying that strand of DNA in order to revise the functions or appearance of the organism (Cecil). The process is much like taking pages from two separate books and adding the pages to a third book to create a whole new story. This technology has been utilized to produce a variety of medical substances and to enhance the quality of many agricultural crops. As new information is constantly being uncovered, scientists are proposing the idea of using this tool to alter civilization. Although the genetic engineering technology is acceptable in several medical and agricultural settings, researchers are steadily turning to controversial applications in other aspects of everyday life such as the enhancements of human intelligence and modification of the genetic makeup of human offspring.

Deoxyribonucleic Acid or DNA: Defining Our Life Genetics is defined as the study of heredity. Heredity is controlled by genes, which aid in the development of a cellular organism’s definite characteristics. Such characteristics include sex, hair color,

Introduction Gene is a small unit of molecule which is a living organism. It has commonly known as DNA (deoxyribonucleic Acid) and Ribonucleic Acid (RNA). There is a long chain which works for its functioning. We see that all the living creatures have DNA which separates the identity of two individuals. There are better to examine all the information and maintain the cells and traits of a creature. These genes are related with the regions which are regulatory along with transcribed. They provide with better functionalities as well. Every cell contained in the human body is mainly featured or inherited from the parents and genes helps in differentiating the both. Considering and observing the chromosomes closely, we see that there is a big