Cracking the Code of Life Questions

Write a Reflection on the video segments. Incorporate the points below in your reflection. 1. Instructions for a Human Being
Explain the storybook metaphor -The storybook metaphor explains that DNA is always edited and that each night you can discover or read new information. DNAs 4 billion years of history -SNA 4 billion year history starts with the very first organism which sent out a chemical message (DNA) to other organisms that sent it to another and another to the point where it reached to us humans. DNA structure, chemical makeup, function - The structure of the DNA is shaped as a double helix, the chemical make up is Cytosine, Guanine, Thymine, and Adenine (CGTA) they always come in pairs; G C and T A. the function of DNA is to send instructions to your children on how they will look, act, like Etc.

2. Getting the Letters Out

Goal of the Human Genome Project - The goal of the genome project was to figure out the DNA to see if a person has a certain disease or illness and see the persons attributes. Explain the use of technology - The use of technology really helped decoding each DNA letter faster and sped up the process.

3. One Wrong Letter

What is Tay Sachs? - Tay sachs is a disease that slowly destroys a babys brain by fat building up in the brain and straining the brain killing brain cells. Explain the term carrier. - The term carriers are people who hold and carry the disease with them but possibly pass it to their children.

4. The Sequencing Race Begins

Explain: Automated DNA-reading process - The process of DNA-reading process starts out with the DNA and the DNA gets chopped up in small pieces by a machine. The next step is that those chopped up DNA pieces get copied over and over with bacteria. Then they are tagged with colored dye. Than a laser bounces light off each snip of DNA and the colors it sees represents the letters of the DNA code. Role of Celera Genomics in the HGP - The role of the Celera is to discover the DNA code by using the DNA-reading-process

5. Ramping Up
Is the HGP a necessary public investment? Explain. - I think HGP its a necessary investment because it helps us the public and teaches us valuable information.

6. Genetic Variation
How similar are humans? - Humans 1`are 99.9% similar to another human. Sharing genes with a banana Explain. - I think its possible because if it started from one organism and that organism send its DNA code to another organism and that continued on until humans, its a possible that we still have similar DNA codes that are in a banana.

7. Who Owns the Genome?

Discuss arguments for and against patenting the genomic code. - That they fond new genomic codes but its was not useful to them.

The effects of patenting on drug companies - That it will take longer for drug companies to solve diseases for humankind because someone else might have Patten that particular DNA code.

8. The Business of Science

Who is profiting from the genome? - The companies that patented the particular DNA area. Describe the more recent changes in the views of the scientific community. - The views of the scientific community changed because now they are keeping their discoveries to them selves instead of sharing and progressing forward faster.

9. Finding Cures is Hard

What is cystic fibrosis (CF)? - It is a disease that attacks mainly on the lungs that cause respiratory infection. Explain HOW Genes determine Proteins. - Because the genes makes up the protein and its shape. HOW does the 3-dimensional structure of a protein affect its function? - Its 3 dimensional structure affects the protein function because it defines what it does and tells other proteins what it does and this is how they recognize each other and do they job. And these proteins determine your shape.

10. Complexity in Proteins

What is a proteome? - A proteome is the collection of all your proteins.

11. The Finish Line

Discuss the new beginning and direction in science - The new beginning in science is to understand all the attributes and jobs of the DNA and proteins that is in are bodys and every thing else

12. Finding Disease Genes

Scientific processes involved in identifying genes for traits like baldness - The process is you take DNA from a guy that has hair and a guy that is bald and you compare the letter and find the letters that differ from the two DNA letters. Explain: "Iceland -All in the family." - Iceland is explained as a place where everyone is related from the very first stealers in Iceland. And since the population is so small everyone has a very similar DNA letter code to each other. Use of DeCODE's giant DNA database - The use of DeCODEs is to hunt and find genes that cause diseases.

13. DNA Databases

What is GATTACA? - GATTACA is a movie that explains that everyones DNA is an open book and that everyone that can afford to has their kid made to spec and the ones that cant have to do it the normal way. Gene chips and newborns? - A gene chip is a tiny dot of DNA from a baby and each chip can support 80,000 different DNA test so a single chip can test a thousand babies for diseases. So they can find the problem earlier so they can fix it in the future.

14. A family Disease

Discuss the mutations BRCA1 and 2 - BRCA 1 and 2 is a gene that all humans have but some families have a mutation with in these genes. Which causes diseases like breast cancer or any other disease.

15. Genetic Modification

Enhancing your kids- pros and cons - The pros of enhancing your kids are that your kids will have little or no diseases at all and they can choose how they look so they are not ugly. The cons of enhancing your kids are that your kids might not like what you have done to them. Safety of genetically modified foods

- The safety of genetic modified food is not safe because i think that its unnatural and unhealthy to us and are bodies. Explain some concerns about GMO - Some concerns about GMO are that it can cause health problems because of the toxins and genetic messing up of the DNA. Also there is some bad effects that goes to the environment.

16. Contemplating the Message

Again " Who owns the Genome?" - The government owns the genome.