Today I was looking for more challenge from my biology class. So, I went to Colleen to find more.
She gave me an article about how jews are smarter than the average human being.
This article gave many reasons why jews may be smarter, but personally, I think it is much simpler than I realize. I think that many of the people who are jewish just respect education much more than others. I think that the author is thinking that a gene helps the jews but honestly, going to school will do juts as much. I do not think that I am smarter than anyone because I am jewish. Rather, i think my hard work ethic by going to Colleen to get more of a challenge is why I might have higher test scores personally. Further, I think that many of those who value education get higher test scores in general. Therefore, I do not agree with the author in the way he says that a gene helps jews to be smart, and that all jews have this gene.
--Elliott
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
How Big is Your Chicken?
Those chickens you buy at the supermarket are cheap and yummy but do you know where they came from? If the chicken you are eating is 3kg rather than 1kg would it change your opinion? Many of the birds we eat live in close quarters and can barely hold their weight.
Selective breeding is taking the best birds and breeding them with each other whereas Genetic modification scientist can change traits directly. Selective breeding is very useful because farmers can easily change the appearance of their chickens without scientific methods. Also it is all natural. GMO's on the other hand scientist can isolate a single gene and add or take it from the chicken. Like removing the feathers if they get to hot. Even so both ways of breeding, the chickens have become so large that they ar ein pain for their whole life because they are so large. I think that selective breeding is more consequential because we have chickens that have all the bad traits now. These chickens would never be able to live in the wild.
IHope we can find ways to get food cheaply but without hurting the integrity of species. I don't think that Gregor Mendel would aprove of what we are doing now because we are hurting the species as a whole at this point. Hopefully in the future we can help this species go back to their original state.
Selective breeding is taking the best birds and breeding them with each other whereas Genetic modification scientist can change traits directly. Selective breeding is very useful because farmers can easily change the appearance of their chickens without scientific methods. Also it is all natural. GMO's on the other hand scientist can isolate a single gene and add or take it from the chicken. Like removing the feathers if they get to hot. Even so both ways of breeding, the chickens have become so large that they ar ein pain for their whole life because they are so large. I think that selective breeding is more consequential because we have chickens that have all the bad traits now. These chickens would never be able to live in the wild.
IHope we can find ways to get food cheaply but without hurting the integrity of species. I don't think that Gregor Mendel would aprove of what we are doing now because we are hurting the species as a whole at this point. Hopefully in the future we can help this species go back to their original state.
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