The Human Genome Project

1:46 24 moodle.edgecombe.edu &Edgecombe Tnoodle and paste the questions into your or use numbers to identify your responses. You may use phrases for the first 8 questions. 1. What was the Human Genome Project? 2. When was the orginal genome completed? 3. When was the human genome finally completed? 4. What were three surprising things that the Human Genome Project showed? 5. What is the name of the technique used most often for gene editing? 6. What are two things that gene editing is used for? 7. What is CODIS? Answer these two questions in a paragraph of at least 75 words each. 8. The Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that DNA, like fingerprints or facial scans, can be taken from suspects under arrest but not convicted and used for comparison to DNA from other crimes in law enforcement databases? Do you consider this a violation of your privacy or unlawful search and seizure? 9. Should DNA from family members be used to identify potential criminals who are not in law enforcement databases? 10. What protections do GINA, a law passed in 2008) give you when it relates to insurance and health care? Rebecca Daranali

moodle.edgecombe.edu Respond to these prompts in paragraphs of not less than 100 words each which you should save as a Word file and upload below. Response # 1: What do you think? Should such a test as the one described above on the 23andme website be available? Why or why not? Should these tests be regulated so that they are only available through medical professionals? Should they be regulated by the government? Or should these be available directly to the consumer? Why not allow such tests if they provide information helpful to health? Response # 2: Assume that in a few years these kinds of tests become widely available and are even part of your annual physical. What would you like to know and what would you NOT want to know about your own DNA? (See the article "DNA as Destiny" and the website noted above.) For example, would you want to know if you have the gene variant associated with Alzheimers or diabetes? Would you want to know if you had a serious disease that you would be likely to pass onto your children? Here is a link to the report about Celiac Disease (which causes gluten sensitivity https://permalinks.233ndme.com 4* sampIereport_genetichealth.pdf