Summary Of Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain

In the novel, the fever has killed many, but the lucky few that recovered from the fever, cannot get it again. This shows, that if yellow fever doesn't kill you, it may make you stronger in then long run. A quote from fever, 1793, that supports this theme, shows that even if you are at the edge of life, there will always be a way to pull through. ' We found her, near death, on the side of the road. It took her weeks to recover, but she's better now.

Starting in chapter 5 and showing less in about chapter 10, the book shows how the fever starts and how Yellow Fever affects people. The previously mentioned symptoms are actually less than the half of it, with the victims vomiting blood and terrible weakness. These symptoms can easily kill you if untreated. While the disease is often fatal, some people survive, but some may say it would have been better to die than go through the disease. The pestilence can cause nearly a lifetime of suffering, from the symptoms to the dead victims.

In this experiment, you will model the effects of mutations on the genetic code. Some mutations cause no structural or functional change to proteins while others can have devastating affects on an organism.

This dying process which happens to nine out of ten people who come in contact with the deadly disease is called crashing and bleeding. Samples of his blood were flown to all the major disease labs in the world. The disease was a Marburg Strain. In Sudan the same types of deaths were wiping out whole tribes. So Gene Johnson flew over there and worked with sick members of the tribes to try and find a cure.

Most of the ill-causing bacteria will be killed but the ones that don’t die, carry a gene or genes that allows them to withstand the antibiotic. These bacteria are better adapted to deal with the antibiotic. This adaptation will become stronger as it is passed. When these bacteria reproduce, they will pass the genes on to the next generation and the next generation bacteria better adapted against the antibiotic. The more they reproduce, the more antibiotic resistant bacteria will be in the individual eventually becoming totally resistant. This is an example of directional selection in the natural selection process. The bacteria with the resistant genes would become the favored extreme phenotype.

Every man makes mistakes, that is part of being a human being, and we can use these mistakes to learn and adapt in the future. Some blunders however, are more dire than others. When a team of scientists working at a top secret installation, who just happen to be researching a deadly new virus that came from outer space make a mistake, it can end in tragedy very quickly. In Michael Crichton’s novel The Andromeda Strain, Crichton illustrates characterization by showing us how each scientist makes a mistake that, when added up, might have concluded with the death of everyone on the team. Crichton shows that when under extreme stress, man will make mistakes based on lack of self control, general ignorance, and personal ideals.

Virus of the Virus The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton, involves the return of a government satellite to earth from space bearing a deadly organism that, with the exception of two people, wipes out an entire town in Arizona. Various agencies and individuals attempt to deal with the emergency. This novel deals with important themes of science, society, discovery and disaster. Crichton uses characterization for all of his different scientists to show that they all at one time or another struggle with the view of science and society. What science gives to society from time to time is downgrading due to the “Norm” that society views from scientific evidence that there are more to the world than just what the “Norm” is.

In the book, The Andromeda Strain there is a problem that faces mankind. This problem is a strange virus that comes to Earth from an unmanned satellite, which was in space. This satellite crashes into a small town in Arizona, which has a population of 38 people.

Michael Crichton wrote The Andromeda Strain in 1969. In the book a satellite returns to Earth and lands near a small town in Arizona. Soon it is found out that everyone in that town has died. It is believed that the satellite returned with a deadly microorganism. When a team known as Wildfire goes to inspect the satellite they discover a man named Peter and a baby named Jamie who have survived. The two survivors and the satellite are taken back to the Wildfire lab. In the lab the microbe is given the codename Andromeda. Upon investigation the scientists find out that the microbe mutates during every life cycle, but only in a certain pH range. The scientists also find out that a normal human’s blood pH level fits inside this range. The reason the two humans survived is because their blood. pH level is extremely different than a normal human’s. The mutated microbe begins to breach the security in the lab, triggering the self destruct. The lead scientist named Dr. Hall uses a key and barely stops the self destruction of the lab. It is than suspected that the

Over the summer, I read The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton. I really enjoyed this book. Something I noticed though, throughout the book, is that there were a few “Aha” moments for the characters when they found or figured out important pieces of information. One of these moments happened quite early in the story, when the scientists found the surviving infant and old man in the town of Piedmont, Arizona. The scientists who made this incredible discovery then had to figure out how and why those two people had survived a deadly virus while the rest of the town didn’t. The scientists then found what the two survivors had in common and used that knowledge to stop the strain from spreading rapidly.

Be it through evolutionary selection over time or even death, nature finds a way to eliminate unwanted traits. This much being said, many of the costs of disease symptoms, though painful, are necessary evils. Many of these are accidental byproducts of genetic mutation, such as the occasional death linked to the anti-malarial genes predisposing favism or sickle-cell anemia. But there are no accidents in nature, these deaths prevent this mutation spreading into future gene pools. Occasionally over time genes may begin to clash within a creature's modern environment faster than the species can evolve, causing survival to become a challenge that could potentially kill off a species completely. Though its important to keep in mind not always are such drastic measures required- many disorders that are linked to genes provide trade-offs, as they may be the result of mismatches between ancestral conditions and the modern world, and as Moalem proves that disadvantages are necessary to evolve

In his affirmations, Crichton portrays the narrative of the Andromeda Strain as an "story of heroism and intelligence." Although the researchers commit numerous errors, they do seek after their assignment with valor and determination. In any case, they indicate prescience in imagining the likelihood of an outsider microscopic organisms coming to earth in a returning satellite. Stone specifically is a visionary on the grounds that he is one of only a handful of researchers who seriously consider Rudolph Karp's case to have found microbes in meteors . Amid the emergency, the researchers run about their errands with rationale and accuracy. They are constant in their quest for information, getting little rest amid the four days the emergency endures.

      Many of the doctors of the time were amazed at the horrible disease. Physicians were stumped about cure or even remedies of this illness. The only advice they could offer is to get away from it and start off new

Ever since life first appeared on the planet we call home, these organisms have been changing in a process called evolution. Evolution favors genetic traits that helps a species thrive and reproduce and tries to weed out the traits that threaten a species’ chance of survival. Genes that give a survival or reproductive advantage spread through the gene pool faster while genes that do not help a species get less common. This key mechanism of evolution is called natural selection. But even with evolution and natural selection, genetic diseases that make people sick are still in the gene pool after hundreds of thousands of years. So why would this happen? In Dr. Sharon Moalem’s Survival of the Sickest, he proposes that many of today’s deadly genetic

The study of genetics includes not only the study of normal DNA, but also of the mutations within a DNA. A mutation is a slightly distorted gene. These mutations can have an effect on a person, both physically and mentally. Although genetics may seem to be just about the genes, scientists are beginning to see a connection between gender and genetic mutations.