In biology class we learned about a chimp named Lucy. Lucy got taken away from her chimp parents at a very young age by Maurice and Jane. They decided to do an experiment on Lucy to see that if she was raised as a human then would Lucy start growing the habits that humans. What do u know?, Lucy did start to grow the habits of a human.
After a while Lucy was acting so much like a human that she couldn't care for herself. She relied on humans to give her food. she made tea, got dressed, and did exactly what a regular human girl would do. After a while lucy got out of hand and started destroying furniture and everything else in he way.
The house sitter decided to take Lucy back to Africa with all of the other chimps that couldn't care for themselves.She stayed there for a year with them and then after lucy still wouldn't take of herself then she decided to leave Lucy alone with the other chimps. The care giver did come back one time, but the second time she cam back all that was left of Lucy were her hands.
The one thing that i took away from this story is that animals should not be taken out of their natural habitats and if there is a need to take them out then they should not be returned to their natural habitats. Lucy is a very good example of what can happen to animals when you do stupid expirements on them
convicted:
Roland cotton was charged with two counts of rape and two counts of burglary. The was sentenced to life plus 54 years in prison and served 10.5 of that sentence for a crime that he didn't do. The evidence that was found against him was a flashlight found at his home that looked like the one in the house that was broken into. A photo taken, rubber from the sole of his shoe that looked identical to the one found on crime scene, and a police lineups by one of the victims.In 1987 Cotton was retried but his case didn't last long and he returned jail. This incident happened in 1984. In 1994 the chief defender requested two new lawyers to take over his case and in 1995 all of the evidence that was against him got released.
The outline of the progression of DNA technologies
· 1865, when Gregor Mendel was the father of Genetics.
· 1947, Erwin Chargoff found the DNA bases follow certain “rules” He also found the composition of species A=T, C=G for all species.
· 1951, Rosaland Franklin obtained sharp X-Ray diffraction photographs of DNA
· 1953, Watson and Crick description of the 3-D structure of DNA.
· 1958, Meslson and Stahl found how DNA replication is semi-conservative.
1977- 2000 The Floodgates Open
· 1970, Smith and Nathan’s discovery of restriction endonucleases.
· 1973, Boyer, Cohen and Chang transform E. Coli with recombinant plasmid.
· 1984, Alec Jeffrey introduces technique for DNA fingerprinting to identify individuals.
· 1997, Dolly cloned from the cell of an adult ewwe, DNA microarry technology developed.
· 2000, The Drosophila genome is completed. The Arabidopsis genome is completed. The human genome is reported to be completed.
