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This question asks us to give at least three examples of the role of genetics in society today.
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So the first example that we'll start off with is the fact that genetics will play a very important role in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
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Because if we think about it, we are going to use certain genetic tests.
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For example, we can look at these short repetitive sequences in our dna to determine if there's going to be an increased susceptibility or risk factor for developing a particular disease.
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We can also use genetic markers to determine if an individual will develop diseases that are genetic, such as huntington disease, tasx disease.
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We can determine all of this.
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And we could also use our genetics to offer potential treatment options.
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So we could determine the genome types of these different individuals and specifically look at, once again, those short repeating sequences in the dna in order to determine what treatments work for them and extrapolate that data and see if perhaps that treatment might work for another individual that has a very similar short repeating sequence.
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So in that way, we can diagnose diseases much more efficiently, much more accurately using genetics, and then we can also offer treatments that might have better outcomes using this genetic basis.
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Another example that genetics will play in our society is in the breeding of plants and animals.
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So if we think about the work of gregor mendel and how he crossed different pea plants to produce desired outcomes, we can do the same thing with plants and animals.
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We can mate those plants and animals the way we see fit, and that is known as selective breeding.
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And thus, we can produce a desired outcome...