helixrenovator

My parents have made the choice to home school me, since I am having a horrid time in Somerville High School, and feel that I could work a lot more decisively in the constraints of a home enviorment. However, I also need social activities, apart from my friends, so qoutes my dear mother. So is thier any way I could actually get into a lab of some sort to observe? I dont know a terrific sum of information, which mainly pertains to Biology, but I feel it would be incredibly helpful to be in that enviorment. Does anyone know of any institutes or such facilities with labs which may be willing to allow observation on my part? I reside in Central New Jeresy, if that aids in reply. Thanks.

So what presicely does an X chromosome supply that is absent in the Y chromosome?

While aware that two X chromosomes produce a female offspring, and one X and one Y produce the male, and while this does vary amongst organisms, ( and can consequently be reversed in select species), what would occour in the case of two Y chromosomes? Is it even possible? I recall reading a truely entertaining piece of literature, entitled, or rather on the subject of, the science behind the tv show, the x-files, and in the book I remember a paragraph which stated that if a human were created with two Y chromosomes, they would be "alien", so I suppose saying if a "human" were created...is rather contradictory. Is thier any truth behind this concept?

My parents are consumed by the thought that humans were much better off before technology, in particular genetics, attained a healthy standpoint in the world. They, for lack of a better word, are very...ummm...organic. That is, they are certain to hate all forms of technology, feeling it corrupts the natrual standing point of our species. I see no sense in it at all, but then again, I'm largely young. Thanks for the book recommendations, as well as the websites. They confirm well with any questions I had, pertaining to the subject in consideration and discussion.

I wonder if any one will develop the tech before my time frame of aproxematly 1200 months finds itself expired? Though I suppose if the unlikely commences, if thiers a theory on how to perform the delicate operation, not just the blank technology, the whole process will be thoroughly faster. Any recomendations on literature on the topic recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid? (I just love typing that colassal word, please dont ask why, but I'm infatuated with the inteligent stuck up air it releases into my post ) I have acsess to a public library or two, and limited internet, and parents who think advances in science promise a high mortality rate to all on earth, so books are a bit more reachable than websites. Any recomendations are helpful.

Yeah, oppresive and vegeterian. Tofu is as important as the prime meridian, though I suppose that doesn't exactly qualify for the supreme metephor of the century award, but I wouldn't like being in the spotlight anyways. I suppose staying, (or rather looking), young can be achieved by a good diet, vitamin supplements, regular engagement with the treadmill, but I think that perfecting the human genome, ( well, actually just making additions to), would result in a much more desirable outcome. What exactly could stop aging anyways?

Thanks! I'll try out the link...as soon as I get back on the internet...I'm being booted off by parental units as this is typed...so much for mercy...

I'm from New Jersey, quite the boreing place in my opinion, but about the bullets comment, I'm thinking of working as a scientist for the CIA, and being inundated with steriotypical situations, (though my parents have prohibited any form of Televison in our home), bullets and the CIA sort of collaborate as one. And another brief intrusion...I'm a girl, by the way...That "He" comment was a bit infuriating... Anyways...So, I'll drop the bullet penetration theory, and skim over, or should I say back, to the whole aging topic. Would increased cell regeneration help at all? What can I say? I'm a teenager obsessed with staying young...

Well, I am interested in constructing, (someday), computer games. But really, I'm hungery for anything, almost.

I want to learn some type of computer programming language, but have absolutely no clue as to where to begin my learning, or what is the least complicated, (though I suppose thats a silly thing to say, since anything having to do with computers has to be at a certain level of complexity, and if its below that, then, well, it shouldn't exist in the computer programming collective). I'm only in my freshmen year of high school, but I feel the earlier the better. I have attempted doing research on various computer languages, but without much direction, I do a belly flop on cement, breaking a few ribs. So do you, who I gather are much more experienced, have any advise as to where to start?

Firstly, thanks for your prompt replies. Much more informative than my slightly dull witted biology teacher. Back to topic: So, would a person with such rapid cell dedifferntiation be totally impregnable to bullets, cuts, ect., since both skin and blood cells would regnerate faster. Would this have any impact on aging? I gather that when you age in your appearence because your cells dont divide at such a quick rate any longer, your skin looses elasticity,ect. But if you were capable of regrowing your right arm after it was torn off by a testosterone bloated diabolical canine, wouldn't something less dramatic like skin cells regenerate or divide at a faster rate, keeping you at that fresh 25 year old look for a couple of centuries...(okay, maybe not quite THAT long)...

The data may be slightly beneficial, though in my current mindset I cant directly make the connection. However, if you consider all the uproar it would cause amongst the populous, if the data were used, one begins to think it may not be worth it. There are alot of people who have suffered considerable loses in the holocaust, many still flinch at the mention of Hitler. If it was publisized that data from nazi experimentation was being idolized, a response far from euphoric who follow. Then again, it is only data. If someone can find a use for such material, I see no reason to stop them from doing this.

For a brief introduction: I am new to this forum, 14 years old, and to curious for my own welfare, directly in disregard of authority, and bursting with adolescant hormones. To place a grand finale on it all, I am intrigued by science. Now the query: I have come to the conclusion that the homo sapien would fare alot better if they had increased cellullar dedifferentiation, and could regenerate limbs, blood cells, brain cells, ect. This ability has been discovered in adult urodele amphibians, (newts for example), as well as echinoderms. I was unformed by my somewhat reliable readings, that we, those in the bio-tech industry, are quite a distance from actually being able to splice the exact section of DNA which contains those genes responsible for limb regrowth, into a section of our DNA. So, if the right technology was discovered, and if the right procedure was developed, and if the new DNA managed to be held together, and the bonds, even with the ligases, weren't to brittle, would the end product be considered human? What are the direct genetic defintions of a human?