Students’ Critical Commentaries: Unfettered Voices

Anecdotal, historical and critical commentaries on genetics.

Anecdotal , Historical and Critical Commentaries on Genetics

S OMEWHERE in Latin America a single P-element copy found its way into the genome of Drosophila melanogaster from another insect species. Once there, these transposable elements made use of their new hosts’ DNA repair mechanism to increase their copy number while transposing to new genomic positions. Within the span of a few decades they spread worldwide to encompass nearly the entire species. ...

Coevolutionary diversification unfettered

Review of: Clayton, D. H, Bush, S. E., and Johnson, K. P. Coevolution of life on hosts. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 294 p. ISBN-9780226302270; $45 PB. Coevolution, the reciprocal selection among interacting species, is still in the midst of a long and tumultuous, perhaps torturous, scientific debate that has not abated even since Janzen’s (1980) succinct paper, “When is it coevolution...

Perspectives on genetics: anecdotal, historical, and critical commentaries, 1987–1998

Shelley's novel Frankenstein of 1818, in which a scientist creates human life, and it turns on him in revenge. The story has been retold over and over through the succeeding two centuries in novels, films, cartoons and newspaper headlines; it has become a myth whose horrors can be evoked in a single word, a name. Turney shows how the myth shaped-or perhaps reflected-public response to mechanist...

Family Involvement in Four Voices : Administrator , Teacher , Students , and Community

My parents come to the coffeehouses and it means a lot to me because he (her dad) works from like 2:30 to 4:30 and for him to come out and stay out real late just to come out and support me, it feels good. And my grandmother is on the other side of town; she also has to get up early. It feels good to have support. And they’re always saying to do your best at everything. And when you do your bes...