Wednesday, October 27th will be the date for our next Learning Lunch as we invite Dr. Ram Nayar, Associate Professor of Microbiology at Daytona Beach Community College to speak on the Human Genome Project, cloning and gene therapy. A genome is all the DNA in an organism, including its genes.
Genes carry information for making all the proteins required by all organisms.
These proteins determine, among other things, how the organism looks, how well its body metabolizes food or fights infection, and sometimes even how it behaves. Dr. Nayar will also discuss cloning, which the dictionary defines as the technique of producing a genetically identical duplicate of an organism. A clone is said to be all descendants derived asexually from a single individual, as by cuttings, bulbs, by fission, by mitosis, or by parthenogenesis reproduction. For Dolly the cloned sheep, the donor was an udder cell from an adult ewe. The chromosomes of an animal that develops from this union come only from the donor, so the animal is its genetic twin or clone.