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All in all, the concept of finding someone compatible through testing their genes is not an impossible idea, but only if done completely right, with no random error. Although existing technology is no where near doing this (finding a significant other or if people are compatible through their genes), there are some scientist who thinkContinue reading “Is DNA Compatibility and Dating Real?”

Almost everything can change a person’s epigenome. It doesn’t have to be a dramatic change or a change that last forever but even simple everyday tasks like exercising changes a person epigenomes to a certain extent. Epigenetics is a large and broad topic, where there is still a infinite amount of things to yet findContinue reading “the New World of Epigenetics”

What is PTSD? Why is it that something in someone’s life can impact them mentally for such a long time after it happens? A huge part of why it is that traumatic experiences such as being bullied, being in a crisis, being in a dangerous situation, and so on, cause PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder),Continue reading “The Effects of PTSD on Genes”

What is the difference between a normal bee and a queen bee? What decides which bee gets to be the leader of the hive or just a normal working bee? The way queen bees are made, is no random selection, or a mutation. In fact, the only thing that sets the queen bees apart fromContinue reading “How Queen Bees are Made”

1. If one set of identical twins have offsprings with another set of identical twins, the children are genetically siblings, but are socially cousins. This is because, aside from life alterations through epigenetics, identical twins have the exact same genetic material. Therefore, the children of the different sets of parents, have the same possibilities rangeContinue reading “Cool Facts About Genetics”

Genes. Everything that makes us who we are. Without them the body would not know what to do and how to function. They are an essential component that allow humans animals and plants to live. My main curiosity about genes can be summed up as: depending on what a living thing does, acts, or isContinue reading “Introduction”