Ice_Phoenix87 Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 hey, im doing a speech on genetics, but i dont know what i should do it on in genetics. any ideas? or does anyone have any other good and interesting speech topics besides genetics. thanx phoenix
Guest h2whoa Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 hey' date=' im doing a speech on genetics, but i dont know what i should do it on in genetics. any ideas? or does anyone have any other good and interesting speech topics besides genetics. thanx phoenix[/quote'] Genetics is quite a broad spectrum! I suggest that you decide specifically what it is you want to talk about and then work from there. h2
MolecularMan14 Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 Think of something that will grab attention. Something cutting edge and current. If you do a topic on the history of genetics starting from the 1950s and such, people will get bored b/c they could really read all that in a book. Teach them something they couldnt find by themselves (at least without some good hard research first )
Guest h2whoa Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 One thing that I think might really grab their attention would be the possible link between endogenous retroviruses and placental formation in mammals. h2
Ice_Phoenix87 Posted October 21, 2004 Author Posted October 21, 2004 "One thing that I think might really grab their attention would be the possible link between endogenous retroviruses and placental formation in mammals" sounds good, explain some more :P:P
daisy Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 Or how about doing something on pharmacogenomics....very relevant with regards to drug response in individuals etc.
Gilded Posted October 23, 2004 Posted October 23, 2004 Hey Ice, weren't you going to do the speech about you going to be a youth ambassador?
Guest h2whoa Posted October 25, 2004 Posted October 25, 2004 "One thing that I think might really grab their attention would be the possible link between endogenous retroviruses and placental formation in mammals" sounds good' date=' explain some more :P:P[/quote'] Well basically there's a very interesting theory that the inclusion of endogenous retroviruses into the genomes of mammalian ancestors permitted mammals to carry live young as opposed to laying eggs. You can read a brief abstract of the idea here. The text of a New Scientist article about it back in '99 is to be found here. You'll need Abode to read it and it's lacking the pictures that the original article had. These are good places to start any way. I'm sure you'll find some great stuff as well if you Google: "endogenous retrovirus" placental mammalian h2
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