Genetists

 Geneticists 
 * Geneticists- ** studies genetics, which is the study of heredity and variation of organisms.

__Main Focus of Geneticists-__ **  Geneticists focus on the genetic makeup of an organism based on their genes passing from one organism to another starting at the origin. They also look at the disorders that are caused by genes. The causes of genetic disorders are abnormal genes. 
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**__Subcategories of Geneticists-__ **  A genetic counselor evaluates a person's family history to see if any medical conditions could be the result of a genetic disorder. When they are looking at the family’s medical history, they trace back to see if the diseases could be transferred throughout the family genetically. By doing a thorough family history and making a family tree, this helps them determine if a genetic defect is likely. They can then provide counseling about the risk of passing this disease on in their family. This process can be challenging because so many diseases can be similar. They also provide support and help families cope with birth defects and genetic diseases occurring in the family’s life. To receive this counseling it is best to consult large universities or medical centers such as UT Southwestern Medical Center, Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Baylor Universtiy Hospital, or any other major institution.  Medical geneticists look at inherited diseases, such as diabetes, Downs syndrome and high blood pressure from one generation to another in a family. Treatments can include organ transplants and gene therapy. Gene therapy replaces a bad gene with a healthy gene. A carrier molecule called an vector must be used to deliver the healthy gene to the patient’s target cells. Currently the most common vector is a virus that has been genetically altered to carry normal human DNA. Even though gene therapy is a great tool there are some drawbacks that may occur: the healthy genes die quickly; the immune system responds and destroys the gene; problems with viral vectors; and multigene disorders can occur.  <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 140%; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"> **<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: #5aff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">__Behavior Genetics-__ **<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: #5aff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #fff100; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="display: block; font-size: 110%; color: #1bd0c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;">Behavior genetics focuses the inheritance of behavioral traits. For example, identical twins verses fraternal twins. Identical twins have the same genes and DNA where as fraternal twins do not have the same genetic make-up. There is an increased chance of fraternal twins if there is a family history, but there is no increased chance of identical twins in families. Another part of behavior genetics is the study of colorblindness. Colorblindness is a condition in which certain colors cannot be distinguished and is most commonly due to an inherited condition. A person is more likely to be colorblind if they are European origin: 8% to 12% of males and one-half of 1% of females. There is no cure for colorblindness or at least not yet! <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> __**<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: #9b13b9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Evolutionary Geneticists- **<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: #9b13b9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> __<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: #12baf3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Evolutionary genetics, also known as evolutionary synthesis or modern synthesis, involves genetics combined with Darwin's evolutionary theory. This branch began in 1908 and describes the evolutionary change from one generation to the other. It tries to explain the change in genetics as generations evolve. This is not a rapid change; it is much slower and at a molecule level. Newer species are coming about because of this process.
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #f20d95; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The schooling required for geneticists involves a Ph.D. in Human Genetics, a Masters Degree and a Bachelors Degree. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #e81717; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">__Schooling-__ ** <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #12baf3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">

<span style="font-size: 13pt; color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt;">[|UT Southwestern] [|MIT] [|Harvard Medical School] [|Wisconsin] [|Chicago] [|Columbia] [|Duke] <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #0be079; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and many more... <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #12baf3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">These are courses that should be taken if one is interested in pursuing a career as a geneticist: AP Biology, AP Chemistry, Calculus, Environmental Science, Physics, and Statistics.
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #82f014; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The founder of the ideas of genetics was Gregor Mendel. Mendel was a monk who studied how traits from parents are transferred to their child. Mendel’s important discovery were Mendel's laws. Mendel's Laws explained <span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #82f014; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> the principles of genetics: the law of segregation <span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #82f014; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, <span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #82f014; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">the law of independent assortment, and the law of dominance were part of these laws. There were important people involved in differant branches in the study of genetics: Sir Francis Galton was involved in behavior genetics, R.A. Fisher, S. Wright, J.B.S. Haldane, and E. Mayr were involved in evolutionary genetics. Also many more other people were involved in many of the other branches. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #ec0e85; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Genetic testing is very important in oncology because now cancer patients can be tested to see if specific chemotherapy medicines could actually be beneficial or would not be helpful in treating their cancer. In the field of fertility, Dr. Jeffery Steinberg created a way to basically customize your own baby. Couples have already been able to choose the gender of their baby and in about six months Steinberg said that couples are going to be able to increase the probability of having their choice of the baby's eye color, hair color, tallness, etc. To see the video of this go to this link- <span style="font-size: 13pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> []. <span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #ec0e85; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In crime scenes, if police can figure out the genes from a strand of hair to a drop of blood, they will now be able to create a face of the suspect. This leads us to an easier way to being able to identify the suspect much more accurately. <span style="font-size: 13pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #eedb2b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Geneticists are able to conduct a lot of research. They are involved in the lab, working to identify new discoveries such as, finding out ways to increase a person's chance for a baby being somewhat how the couple wants them to be or by increasing the chances for a woman to be able to carry a child. This is a very interesting career that is going to make many more discoveries because in the world that we are living in now.
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__<span style="font-size: 13pt; color: fuchsia; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Gene- __<span style="font-size: 13pt; color: fuchsia; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Portion of a DNA molecule that contains the information needed to synthesize an enzyme. __Genetic Code-__ System by which information of synthesizing proteins is built into the structure of DNA molecules. __DNA-__ Deoxyribonucleic acid, gives the cells the genetic information. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Bibliography- <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #82f014; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> Click to see.
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