Genetics everywhere -- Males and females : there are differences -- Females are genetic mosaics -- Anyone exactly like you? -- Playing genetic roulette -- The importance of Mama -- Those awful sideshows -- Why so many miscarriages? -- Radiation : friend or foe? -- You are what you eat : rearranged -- Women in the Olympics -- Marrying your cousin -- The baby is not mine -- Losing their punch -- Genetics is big in agriculture -- Amazing maize -- Seedless watermelons -- Eating genetically modified foods -- Growing human hormones on the south 40 -- Gene therapy : changing your heredity -- Animals have stem cells too -- Sterile? So what! -- Cloning : chip off the old block -- An old conflict : nature versus nurture -- The bad seed -- Catching bad people and freeing innocent people -- Free will or not -- Cancer : innocent cells gone astray -- Human Genome Project -- Skin color -- Gene pools and race -- Fountain of Youth -- The discord between evolution and creationism -- Movies and genetic implications -- Genetic misconceptions -- Genetics and politics crossing paths.
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