Man’s Best Friend
Have you ever wonder why your dog act or looks the way he does? Have you ever dared to delve into the very fibers of what makes up your pet? I will explain the mysteries of genetics and help you understand why a mixed breed dog is overall better to adopt than a purebred. Science strongly backs-up the fact that mixed-bred dogs are better to adopt than purebreds because of their health, lineage, and quantity. I have often wondered what makes up my dog’s genes. Why does he have a sandy brown coat? Why does he have a specific face shape? What gives him his unique personality? Have you ever wondered these things about your dog? Genetics are what make up the personality, features, and even health of an animal. Research shows us
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The definition of heredity, as Merriam Webster Dictionary puts it is “is the transmission of such qualities from ancestor to descendant through the genes.” Genetics or genes are the puzzle pieces that build life. They are bits and pieces of your mother and father’s genes as well as some new genes. These genes are what shape your looks, personality, and even health. If both of your parents have bright blue eyes, you are most likely to have blue eyes too. If one of your parents has brown hair and blue eyes, and the other has blond hair and green eyes, you could have a variety. You could have your mom’s hair but your dad’s bright eyes and vice versa or you could have your mom’s eyes and hair but your dad’s nose shape. In conclusion, for looks, even in just facial looks, there are many different variations of both your mom and dad’s genes. Genetics also shapes your personality. While your mom may be an introvert and your dad an extrovert just like looks, there are many combinations of personality. There are exceptions to both of these gene inheritances. Although it is highly rare, you could have opposite looks and personality from both your parents. This also goes for health. If one of your parents has certain allergies, you may have some of the very same allergies as well as different allergies. Anything inherited or not inherited is just the perfect way God designs each …show more content…
How were they discovered? Well, in the book ‘Genetics Breaking the Code of DNA’ on pages 5-20 tells us who and how genes were first discovered. Gregor Mendel was a peaceful monk living in Austria in the early 1800s. Gregor loved his pea plants but he noticed that some of them of them were tall others were short. Some of them were different colors, different pod shape, and many other details. Therefore, he started doing experiments on his plants. He would separate certain plants together, covering them so that other genes were not able to reach his isolated plants. In this way, with patience and many experiments, Gregor Mendel discovered that different combinations or families created a plant with many of the same genes. Without Gregor Mendel, we might not know about genes today, and we can learn that with patience, we can discover amazing
On a normal person, you have 23 pairs of chromosomes. In each pair, 1 gene comes from the mother, and 1 gene comes from the father. This is how things get passed down from parents to children (like eye color, height, skin tone etc...).
Every year an estimated 4.5 million dog bites occur in the U.S. BSL (Breed Specific Legislation) is a law that suggests that certain breeds are more prone to aggression than others. By banning or restricting the breeds in question, it is believed to help reduce the number of attacks. BSL determines which breeds are dangerous using statistics. These statistics cannot be relied on for two reasons. One, there is no concrete method to determine a dog’s pedigree. Thus, a victim, animal control officer, or owner is trusted with identifying the dog through appearance. According to Scott and Fuller, authors of Genetics and the Social Behavior of the Dog, “It has been known for decades that the cross-bred offspring of purebred dogs of different breeds often bear little or no resemblance to either their sires or dams (1965).” Visual assessments are questionable. Two, population is not accounted for. Population is important, in that it provides context to percentages. Because a dog’s breed is impossible to pinpoint, we cannot provide numbers. BSL’s cause is rendered useless when we consider these points.
Biologist, Gregor Johann Mendel, discovered how traits passed from one generation to the next. Mendel studied and used pea plants to discover the principles that rule heredity. He found that each parent, father, and mother pass down traits to their offspring, who inherit different combinations of their recessive or dominant alleles-terms introduced by Mendel during the 19th century. Mendel introduced important principles teaching us that recessive traits will only be shown in the phenotype if both alleles are recessive. Mendel’s laws of inheritance include the Law of segregation and the Law of independent assortment.
This source is slightly limited because it is not intended for serious research, but rather to provide general information on the topic. This being said, it is helpful to me because it supports other sources that speak more in depth on the topic. I would recommend this source to other researchers only as additional support, not as a source to base their research on. This source was found using the search engine www.google.com using the search term dog evolution. Book Morey, Darcy.
Boyko, A. R., Quignon, P., Li, L., Schoenebeck, J. J., Degenhardt, J. D., Lohmueller, K. E., ... & Ostrander, E. A. (2010). A simple genetic architecture underlies morphological variation in dogs. PLoS biology, 8(8), e1000451.
Besides physical appearance, genes give rise to distinct chemistries in various realms of the body and brain. Such differences sometimes make someone liable or inclined to particular diseases, and some dramatically affect the way a person will respond to medical treatments.
Later on they were bred as companion animals. The different variations of domesticated dog will be discussed later. The down fall of artificial selection is that it decreases variation in a species. Pure bred dog are highly susceptible to many different disorders and disease because of the lack of variation in their genotype. With these two processes, today we have friendly canine
Everyone should have heard this phrase that dog is man’s best friend. We live with them, love them, and take good care of them. When people talk about dog breed, the advantages and disadvantages of purebred dogs is always a controversial issue. Lots of people like purebred dogs because they are beautiful and cute; some people prefer crossbred dogs because they believe purebred dogs usually have genetic disease. Indeed, many evidence and research show that purebred dogs are easier to have genetic disease, and many purebred dogs die from incurable genetic disease every year. However, people still do not pay highly attendant to this problem. Even though purebred dogs are pretty, cute and inherited pure blood compared with the mixed-breed dogs, people should not excessively breed purebred dogs in order to satisfy our desire because a lot of them suffer serious genetic disease, are abandoned on the streets and performed euthanasia in shelters.
This paper will discuss the prison gang issue that exists in our correctional system. It will list several powerful gangs that populate the prison and jails around the country. Descriptions of the gangs will be given along with their history and courses of action they take to maintain discipline within its culture. From the criminal justice side the discussion will cover issues of safety, temptation and corruption that happen when dealing with the various gangs. Finally this paper will propose some personal solutions I think would help ease some of the issues correction officers and those in the criminal justice system have to deal with daily.
If one wants to live a more responsible, more active, and a healthier life style they should get a dog. Obtaining the previously mentioned qualities are great but gaining a best friend is even better. Dogs are intelligent animals and their personalities are one of a kind. With training, love, and patience any dog can become a great addition to one’s family. Adoption from an animal shelter is a great way to get a dog although there are adoption fees most of the money is being used to vaccinate the dog before its taken to its forever home. Buying a dog from a reputable breeder is another option as how one gets a dog. Reputable breeders usually guarantee a puppy’s health. One might have to go through a few more hoops to be able to buy a dog from
...and weight of the male Labrador Retrievers range from (40 to 45 kg) female Labrador Retrievers range (36 kg to 40 kg), and a long coat, science helps us to attain this goal by selective breeding program which may include 20 to 25 generations to get these domesticated specific breeds. . Science also helps us to achieve the task by continuously consulting with paleontologists to research the skeletal structure of dogs and compare the existing bone and body structure to previous breeds. In this regard, Associations have established strict rules and regulations for breeding as well as created a way to unify all breeders in a wide-ranging system in order to promote healthfulness and reward breeders who consistently produce specifically heavier, taller and with longer life span puppies for this purpose by adopting crossbred lines and standardized breeding practice
They say that a dog is a man’s best fried, but they don’t tell you about the overall cost, responsibility, or convenience about adopting one. Dogs are supposed to bring so much joy to a household, but sometimes they can only fill a void for a short amount of time. When a dog owner buys a dog, do they actually research the things that they are about to get in to? When I bought my dog, Skye, I never really looked into is issues; I just looked at the benefits. I love Skye to death, and I guess I could say that she also loves me to death. Even though someone rescuing a dog may think they are doing something great; they are causing an issue on how they will forever live their life.
People have started to make remarks of the resemblance between dogs and their owners, and from what we have found, it is usually noticed at dog shows and from strangers passing by in the streets. There are two factors that could make the owner and the dog similar. One would be people selecting dogs that are like them, and people who select dogs which features start to change and become similar to them over time. As a comparison to animals and their dogs, there is evidence that couples look physically similar after 25 years rather than people who have recently been wed. In the research we have conducted, we have found that purebred dogs have a greater resemblance than people who own non purebred dogs.
The perfect dog sits, stays, rolls over and shakes .the very moment you decide to take on that puppy thats what most people think the puppy will be nothing but a cute playing little dog with good manners, “you must rely on the solid foundation of these seven things socialization,housetraining,sit,down,stay,come,and to walk nicely on leash. “ (De Vito 16)..From the beginning people have learned that a obedient dog brings upon many benefits for both dog and human. In reality when people get that puppy most realise that it was not born with the commands that most associate dogs with.
Height, hair color, eye color and sex are just a few examples of ways our DNA has shaped us. But could it be possible that our DNA also effects the way we behave in society. It is possible that genetics effect us is more ways that we may have imagined. Dr. Peter B. Neubaur believes that shyness, eating disorders, obsessive behavior and psychological illness can all be traced back to our genetics. Sexual orientation is also believed to be derived from genes in our body which determine what sexual preference we prefer. Violence and other types of crimes can be linked back throughout a person’s lineage to witness that other family members have been committed similar crimes without ever meeting one and other.