Other people (and in some cases, the same people) worry that this ability to manipulate germline genes will result in misguided attempts to enhance human physical or mental abilities. ... Type 3 and type 4 genetic interventions would involve the use of somatic cell or germ-line gene modifications, respectively, to affect selected physical and mental characteristics. These procedures would attempt to influence such features as physical appearance or mental abilities. ... They view such monogenic deficiency diseases as Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, Tay-Sachs disease, and metachromatic leukodystrophy s...

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This ability for organic systems to store energy is due to their highly complex physical characteristics that they do not share with inorganic systems. The developments of these characteristics do not inherently cause the organism to store energy, but they do enable that organism to store energy. ... Another defining feature of living organisms is their development of entirely new characteristics that were not shared by any prior members of its genome. Theistic philosophers referred to these characteristics as "creative flashes". ... These new characteristics are enabling condition...

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One could assume that a friend would contain these characteristics of a friend. ... While Gene is having his physical training, Finny is being tutored by Gene so he can get better grades. ... His physical abilities are now rendered useless, and he can no longer play the sports he once loved. ...

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One could assume that a friend would contain these characteristics of a friend. ... While Gene is having his physical training, Finny is being tutored by Gene so he can get better grades. ... His physical abilities are now rendered useless, and he can no longer play the sports he once loved. ...

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They act as a certain sequence of base pairs that codes for a certain trait/characteristic. ... It is described as a Physical Map', which has helped with the draft sequence and already helped identify 100 disease genes.2 A mutation is a change in the genetic material of a cell. ...

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Organisms will depend on reproduction, how mates will attract to each other, and physical fitness. Sexual selection is natural selection arising through preference by one sex for certain characteristics in individuals of the other sex. ...

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Using this, scientist studied the characteristics of organisms for the next one hundred years following Mendel's discoveries. ... Traits such as intelligence, physical prowess, character, and even ethnic type could be altered some day. ...

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A gene is a unit of hereditary that our sexuality is established through and the genes determine the biological characteristics of an individual, both physically and mentally. ... In their turn these release other hormones which regulate physical growth and development" (DR Christian Barnard. 1981) The two main hormones released at sexual maturity are testosterone for males and oestrogen for females. ... These case studies put forward, argue precisely the point, that it is biological factors that decide our sexuality and we are therefore biologically driven towards our sexuality. *************...

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DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid and is used in the body to carry and transfer information that influences the physical and behavioral characteristics of an organism. ... Base pairing allows for the protection of genetic information from being corrupted by external chemical and physical processes, which protects the genetic information and therefore information can be transferred without being damaged. ...

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