Genetic+Enhancement?


 * [[image:dna_image.png width="153" height="46"]] || Why is it called the "Blueprint of Life?" || What is it a blueprint for? || What reads the blueprint? ||

Describe your Topic below: Our topic will be about how genetic mutations and how they become harmful or beneficial. Also about how they could be created to be beneficial in certain aspects. We have picked four desirable traits that animals have and we will figure out it is possible to genetically modify humans to have these traits or if we can use these traits and incorprate them into technology.

Mo will explore the possibility of wings and flying and make a movie maker.

Cris will be looking into the gecko's feet and how it regenerates it's tail and put his information into glogster.

Eric will make a powerpoint with information about the t-rex.

Tyler is responsible for putting a glogster together for the gills part of our project.

Brainstorm what you know and what you would like to know:
 * = ** What we (think) we know ** ||=  ||= What we would like to know / understand ||
 * < We know gecko's have really sticky feet and can regenerate their tails. We know that wings would increase your chances of flying and a t-rex's skull is very strong. We also know gills help you survive underwater . ||  || We want to know about the following; the gecko's tail and how it can regenerate it, the gecko's feet, having wings and the potential to fly, the strength of the skull of a t-rex, and having gills. ||


 * Craft a Driving Question: **

Is it possible to pick and choose traits we see in nature and apply them in genetics, and if we can not apply them in human genetics, can we make technology using these traits?

As you conduct background research on your topic upload useful finds here. This could include ANNOTATED LINKS, ARTICLES, EMBEDDED VIDEOS, GRAPHICS. For all resources site the source (usually the url)
 * Background Research **[[image:Kngine.png width="279" height="89" align="right" link="@http://kngine.com/"]]

skull strength [] structure of the skull []

[|gills info1] describes gills and has links to different articles.

[|Human Ears Evolved from Ancient Fish Gills] more information on gills.

[|human gills] humans might be able to get human gills soon.

[|Small article on Limb regeneration] Insight on limb regeneration from lizard.

[|Research about Lizard regeneration] Research and conclusion on the topic.

[|Article of stem cells to rengeneration] How stem cells are able to form different cells. media type="custom" key="8206666"

http://hplusbiopolitics.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/why-cant-i-have-wings/

[|x and y] - the males y chromosome is twice as likely to pass on a mutation [|Human Mutations] - blocked by school [|11 disease mutations] - a bunch of diseases considered muatations [|NG Platypus] - information about the platypus - is a platypus mutated?

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