I have not made a post in a very long time. This is dew to my computer crashing. Also throughout my holidays I was in Turkey. Therefore I had no access to a computer or my blog. Although there has been a long interval since my last post, i have made great discoveries and have finished my product. My power point presentation, which currently has 20 slides. Also, my research has brought me to the conclusion that my guiding question is not accurate, therefore I am now changing it to, "What are the pros and cons of genetics. How has it helped people and how has it negatively affected them?".
Personal Project-Human Evolution
My name is Shanthanu Venugopal. I am doing my 10th grade in the MYP This blog is to act as a journal for my personal project, I have always been fascinated by mankind's ability to rapidly adapt and evolve to every situation. My guiding question is...Can technology in the future manually change human genes, perhaps to a superhuman level? My AOI is human ingenuity. This is because it takes a great amount of creativity and genius on our part to do something of this standard.
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Signs of Evolution
For the past few days I reached a dead end in my research therefore I have not made any new posts. Yet after intense research I have found that there was another sighting of genetic mutation and possibly even the first signs of evolution. There is child who has been found to have advanced muscle growth. I will continue with research
Monday, 29 August 2011
I found a real life example of possible genetic mutation in humans. A man in Indonesia has root like anomalies growing out of his skin. The man had cut his knee when he was 15, the roots then began to grow all over his body. It could be that when the wound was open some seed may have planted itself inside his body. Feeding of the nutrition and water that is naturally present in the human body. This does not explain though why the roots did not puncture one of organs. This could mean that he has a gene that allows him to survive even with the roots growing. This anomaly has also occurred in other people, who are also from Indonesia. This means that their is a common genome that causes this effect in some Indonesians.
This is a link to a video explaining the story of the "Tree-man":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJLG85gn0bc
This is a link to a video explaining the story of the "Tree-man":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJLG85gn0bc
Drafts for my power points
I have not posted on my blog recently due to the fact that I have been planning my power point's structure and have been searching for people to contact that could possibly help me in my project. From now on wards I will have a new post every Friday
Two days ago I started to work on my power point presentation for my personal project. I did a rough draft of my 1st three slides.
Two days ago I started to work on my power point presentation for my personal project. I did a rough draft of my 1st three slides.
- My first slide acted as the introduction for my project, it gave, in simple wording, the importance of our DNA, how genomes work and discussed my topic.
- The second slide contains the negative effects, risks and consequences of changing genes in the human body.
- The third slide consists of the positive effects and the results or genetic mutation.
Friday, 12 August 2011
Today I did research on the human genes. I found what makes our muscle form, how we have stored information in our brain that designs our body structure, and how those could possibly be changed. The human genetics are actually much more complicated than I first thought, this opens up more room for research.
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