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Could it ever be possible to modify a flesh eating virus to only destroy cancer tissue?
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  • Asked by funky
  • on 2010-08-11 03:56:00
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Categories: Human Body.

Tags: Biology, genetics, viruses, cancers, virus, cancer.

 

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What would happen to a person if their DNA stopped working completely?
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Why do different fruits spoil at different times? Is the time taken by a fruit to decay genetically determined?

For example, I've noticed that green apples survive much longer over strawberries and oranges, even when they are all kept chilled for the same duration of time.
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  • Asked by KKM4
  • on 2010-05-08 13:09:29
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Categories: Domestic Science.

Tags: time, genetics, Fruit.

 

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loss of genetic diversity in human population

The human genoproject has demonstrated that the global population of humans can trace its roots to Africa. Given we're all linked to the same ancestory are we less genetically diverse than our African ancestors. ie over 200,000 years how much new mutation would have been added to our dna and how much would we have lost due to inbreeding in what is suspected to be small migratory groups out of africa.
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  • Asked by bward
  • on 2009-12-13 13:07:11
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Categories: Human Body.

Tags: humanbody, human, genetics, DNA, humandna, Diversity, Genone.

 

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How many people would it take to repopulate the human race?

It is one of those things that comes up in bad Sci-Fi and other low quality media, how many people would it take to re-populate the human race without running into problems like inbreading?
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Would it be possible to genetically modify battery chickens to feel nothing at all?

To stop battery chickens from feeling any pain or claustrophobia in their short lives would it be possible for scientists to genetically modify them to have no pain receptors, touch receptors, be blind and not be able to see. I know this sounds even worse in ethical terms but would it stop the sufferance of the chickens as they would not know what would be going on and would only know how to eat and lay numerous amounts of eggs.

 
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  • Asked by Cynfelyn
  • on 2009-11-15 19:40:46
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Categories: Animals.

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DNA skills. Can the right order of triplits give me skateboarding attributes?

I enjoy maths, because I seem to be able to see patterns and think logically. My DNA probably plays a part in this, but how? How does it make someone better at skiing, puzzles or games? 

Environment cant play much of a part in it, but these qualities sometimes don't seem to be inherited.

And could I have gene therapy to make me better at skateboarding?
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My wife has brown hair brown eyes, mine blue/blonde, oru kids, blue blonde why?

Goes against what i was told about mendelian inheritance of dominant recessive alleles, both mine and my wifes parents have blue-ish eyes and blonde-ish hair, how can my wife have brown eyes and brown hair?? and then our kids should have one in 4 chance of double recessive blue/blonde alleles right?

p.s my wife is not adopted
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  • Asked by roydeboy
  • on 2009-10-29 14:58:34
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Categories: Human Body.

Tags: genetics, mendelian.

 

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What determins how you write?

My friend has really neat handwriting compared to my own. Both of my parents don't have the neatest handwriting. So why is it that I don't have neat handwriting? Is it genetics?

 
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  • Asked by kinig97
  • on 2009-10-28 00:39:25
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Tags: genetics, writing.

 

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Will it ever be likely or possible to generate a precise likeness (e fit) of a person using information stored in DNA alone?
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