Genetic Information And Its Effects On Our Lives

Cancer is a term used for diseases in which irregular cells divide without any control and have the capability to penetrate and infect normal body tissue through the blood and lymph system. Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality in the United States, exceeded barely by heart disease. According to the CDC Cancer Statistics and Data, there were more than 1.45 million people diagnosed with various kind of cancer between 1999 and 2007 and out of those more than 562,000 people died due to cancer (cdc.gov, 2012). Currently there are more than 200 different types of cancer that have been discovered. Cancer could be

Adequate calorie intake. In general, a diet that supplies the right amount of nutrients, but do not exceed the daily calorie intake may be effective in preventing the development of cancer. This is true, because a diet high in calorie from excessive carbohydrates, fats, and protein may contribute to a higher risk of developing

This process of natural selection can lead to significant changes in the appearance, behavior, or physiology of individuals in a population.Generally, mutation is reversed. DNA repair machines are constantly at work in our cells, fixing mismatched nucleotides and splicing broken DNA strands back together. Yet. some DNA changes remain. If a cell accumulates too many changes—if its DNA is so damaged that repair machinery cannot fix it—it either stops dividing or it self-destructs. If any of these processes go wrong, the cell could become cancerous. Environmental Factors

Cancer is defined by the National Cancer Institute as “the name given to a group of related diseases. In all types of cancer, some of the body’s cells begin to divide without stopping and spread into surrounding tissues.” Cancer can develop at almost any part of the human body and anyone can develop cancer, although risk typically increases with age because most cancers tend to require many years to develop. Typically, human cells tend to grow and divide and ultimately form new cells as the body needs them. When an organisms cells grow old or get damaged, the cells die, and new ones replace them. However when cancer develops, this orderly process gets reformatted. As cells increasingly get more irregular, old or

When fighting cancer, your body is already going through the battle of its life, you don't want to ingest even the smallest amount of pesticides. Even if you are trying to prevent cancer or just for overall health, organic fruits and vegetables are the best way to go. Cruciferous vegetables which are broccoli, kale, bok choy, brussels sprouts, cauliflower and cabbage are a powerhouse of cancer fighting properties. Eating these foods lightly cooked or raw provides the best in cancer protection. Also, look for the dark green leafy vegetables

Genetics undoubtedly plays an important role in each person as it transmits physical and character traits. But is this the only reason why a person is happy or unhappy?

Cancer is a disease that occurs because of a gene that has an abnormal gene function. Genes do many wonderful things in your body such as tell you when to get rid of dead cells, control your skin and hair color, and can also affect your chances of getting certain diseases, like cancer. Every cell in your body has a copy of every single gene that you have, even though they may use different genes. An abnormal change in a gene is called a mutation, there are two ways to get a mutation. You are either born with this mutation or you acquire it.

There are lost of ways to prevent cancer or try to prevent it. One of these is reducing your fat intake. One study shows that the result of this is that the level of estrodiol, the potent form of estrogen decreases. Another way to fight breast cancer is to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables. Many fruits and vegetables contain chemicals that may be cancer fighters. A concentrated form of limonene, a substance found in citrus skins, has been found to shrink breast cancer in animals. Some studies have shown that if you breast-fed for more than four months it lowers your risk of the cancer. In a recent study women who have underwent breast reduction have a low risk of getting breast cancer by forty percent.

Not all cancers are a result of rapid and abnormal cell growth within the body. Cancers of the blood, for example leukaemia's, do not form tumours, but they make many abnormal blood cells build up in the blood. Unlike normal cells, under a microscope, it becomes clearly evident how different cancer cells look in comparison to regular body cells. Cancer cells often exhibit much more variability in cell size, some are larger than normal cells and some are smaller. In addition, cancer cells often have an abnormal shape, both of the cell, and of the nucleus. The nucleus is both larger and darker than those of normal cells. The dark nucleus is due to excess DNA and an abnormal number of chromosomes that are arranged in a disorganised fashion. These mutations can either drive the cell to transform and become cancerous, or act as passenger mutations which develops the cell without it being able to perform any specific function. Normally, each cell has a specialised function within the body, but unlike normal cells, cancer cells do not have any function at all (Rykaj et al. 2015). For example, the white blood cells of leukaemia function a lot differently

Cancer is a harmful disease that is caused by uncontrolled dividing of abnormal cells. This disease can affect people of all ages and ethnic groups. However, there are many types of cancer that attacks different parts of the body. Cancer can happen in any body part or in the organs and tissues of the body. Tumors are a part of cancer and theses happen when swelling of a body part is caused by unusual growth of that tissue. Examples of cancer is: brain, lung, liver, prostate, skin, stomach, breast, and ovarian. The disease starts with alterations happening in one cell and the alterations are in the DNA. The DNA mutation can be a duplication of the DNA sequence and a single change in the sequence can lead to the product of mutant protein. These mutations can disrupt the cell’s life cycle and the growth and that can lead to the development of more tumors.

Genetics has always played a role in my personal and professional life, although I may not have recognized how much. I grew up with my best friend having a genetic disorder (Gardner’s Syndrome) although it was not until our adolescent years that I really understood the implications it had on her life and her family’s life.

Because of the great variance in malignant neoplasms (the cause of cancer), research has not been great enough to save the

Cancer occurrs by the production of multiple mutations in a single cell that causes it to proliferate out of control. Cancer cells often different from their normal neighbors by a host of specific phenotypic changes, such as rapid division rate, invasion of new cellular territories, high metabolic rate, and altered shape. Some of those mutations may be transmitted from the parents through the germ line. Others arise de novo in the somatic cell lineage of a particular cell. Cancer-promoting mutations can be identified in a variety of ways. They can be cloned and studied to learn how they can be controlled.

Cancer is caused by the mutation of cells into cancer cells, which consume food and grow rapidly. The food they consume comes from what we eat. In general terms, every food

Growing up today we are all taught in elementary school about the role genetics plays in our lives. However I believe it is presented to us in a way that is designed to only give us a small sliver of the puzzle at least in part due to the emphasis now placed on Mathematics and the Sciences in an attempt to keep the United States on pace with other countries like China whose students excel in this area. As a result we lose the cultural aspect of our upbringing because it isn’t taught to us until you learn about yourself later in life. For example elementary school taught me that genes had an immense impact on our personality and lifestyle and while this is not false I now realize in the course of completing this assignment that our upbringing and life experiences is just as important as genetics.