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For this film response essay, you will watch “Twitch-A Personal Journey About Huntington’s Disease.” It is available at the following website: https://www.kanopy.com/

 

For this assignment, you will need to write a 500-word essay answering the questions below. At any point(s) in your essay, you must also provide references to each of the following textbook chapters. You are encouraged to quote from the book but make sure that the sum of your quotes does not exceed 75 words, and make sure to include quotation marks around any quotes that come from the textbooks. You do not need to include a Works Cited page, but after any quote, make sure you write the author’s name and the page number in parentheses. For example: (Larsen, p. 92).

 

 

 

Questions to answer:

 

1.) Describe the ways that Huntington’s disease is similar to and different from sickle-cell anemia.

 

2.) Describe three different human traits and/or diseases that develop due to the combination of genes and environment. Think broadly about how “environment” is defined – it is not just our natural surroundings but our culture and society too.  Describe all the elements in the environment that can create or trigger these traits or diseases. Is there a way to avoid developing these traits or diseases by changing one’s environment? How so?

 

3.) Do you believe that genetic testing has been a positive, negative, or mixed development for our society? What kind of an impact does it have on Kristen’s life and the lives of her family members? How do other people in the film feel about it?

 

 

4.) In what ways does this film expand on what you read in the assigned chapters for this essay?

 

 

 

Chapters to cite:

 

Chapter 3 – Genetics – Reproducing Life and Producing Variation

 

Chapter 4 – Genes and Their Evolution: Population Genetics

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