Word: gene
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Instead, they voted to de-emphasize the role evolution would play. They were okay with the concept of microevolution, changes that occur within a gene pool of a species of plants or animals. That was left alone...
...basement--we spend our days isolating and sequencing DNA. We look for changes in the base pair sequences, called nucleotide polymorphisms, that might characterize people suffering from these disorders. Weeks might go into the process of finding a G (guanine) replaced by a C (cytosine) on a schizophrenia susceptibility gene...
...have come upon some satisfaction in the discovery that the field of neurogenetics is not as pat as I had feared. BPAD and schizophrenia are both marked by multifactorial genetic inheritance; they are not the results of basic Mendelian transmission. This means that there is a whole host of genes that is involved in the development of either disorder. What lends neurogenetics its literally mind-boggling puzzles are questions addressing possible interactions of these genes: Do the additive effects of a number of genes create the phenotypic spectrum of the trait (for example, in BPAD from mild depression to rapid...
...pitching Campbell's soup and Kellogg's cornflakes into a mock toxic-waste bin. The crowd shouting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho--GMO has got to go!" And, at the podium, Jesse Cool, a popular restaurant owner, wondering what would happen if she served a tomato spliced with an oyster gene and a customer got sick. "I could get sued," she says...
...that between two-thirds and three-quarters of Americans want biotech food to be labeled. Then why not do it? Because companies fear such disclosure could spell disaster. "Our data show that 60% of consumers would consider a mandatory biotech label as a warning that it is unsafe," says Gene Grabowski, spokesman for the Grocery Manufacturers of America. "It is easier," BIO's Eramian points out, "to scare people about biotechnology than to educate them...