Self-replication

The exponential growth of social media has spurred the creation of a unique form of communication in today’s culture. What do I meme? The use of the Internet meme has served as a phenomenon that has changed the way people communicate and have had a notable influence on forms of cultural expression. Memes are defined as, “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from one person to another in a culture and often altered in a creative or humorous way (i.e. images, phrases, snapshots, gifs, etc.).” The rise of the meme culture in a fragmented landscape has no doubt exercised the idea of “cultural formations.” According to lecture, a cultural formation is a ‘complex action, object, event and the cultural texts that come to surround it.’ Throughout this essay I will analyze information from Unit 1 to discuss to what extent viral memes have become a product of cultural expression. Specifically, I will focus on how recent newsworthy memes surrounding the upcoming presidential election have influenced public attitudes regarding the 2016 GOP candidates. Furthermore, in this context, I will explain how memes are one of the few cultural products remaining that unites mass audiences through shared content. Finally, the ultimate goal of this essay is to emphasize how culturally significant memes have become by emphasizing to what degree memes have become a cultural lexicon-a new form of language and communication. Long ago, the prehistoric man painted cave walls as an expression…

Obedience is ‘’compliance with an order, request, law or submission to another’s authority’’. Eichmann, who killed four million Jews, was described to be terrifyingly normal and stated that he was just following orders. Milgram (1963) conducted multiple experiments to investigate how strong an authorities influence was over other’s sense of morals and how far they were able to make them obey. One of the biggest limitations that Milgram’s experiment faced was his ecological validity, the…

North Andaman Islands (NAI) are one of the major island groups of Andaman and Nicobar archipelagos (Fig.1), consisting tropical rainforest encompassing varied species richness and diversity coupled with high endemism (Prasad et al..). As per Champion and Seth [year] the predominant forest types of the study area are Andaman Evergreen (EG), Andaman Semi-evergreen (SEG), Andaman Moist deciduous (MD), Littoral and Mangrove forests. Major part of the island is covered with SEG which is scattered at…

A. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Principle It includes the primer mediated enzymatic amplification of DNA. It uses the ability of DNA polymerase to manufacture new strand of DNA complementary to the offered template strand. DNA polymerase can add a nucleotide only onto a preexisting 3′-OH group to add the first nucleotide that is way Primer is required. Then DNA polymerase elongates its three ends by adding more nucleotides to generate an extended region of double-stranded DNA.…

Concentration In order to observe drug treatment longevity experiment in a certain time period, we need to find a proper concentration of drugs for 5 to 6 days’ longevity. There are two chemical drugs we would use for detection. Phenanthroline can highly induce mitochondrial fragmentation and mitochondrial dysfunctions. Another drug, CPX (ciclopirox olamine) is relatively more targeted at tumor cells. The gradient concentrations of drugs were added into agar where worms live on. For…

open the doors to a new realm that deepen our understanding of biological systems and promises a future that once was an abstract idea in science fiction novels. A challenge that my generation is facing is answering whether genetic modifications are ethical. Despite the ongoing debates, it is remarkable that this type of science is even possible, partially because of the universality of DNA. DNA is the common language of all living things. In order for an organism to reproduce, it must copy…

The Sangers dideoxy sequencing method uses the dideoxynucleotide triphosphates (ddNTPs) as DNA chain terminators. For this method to work effectively, it requires the following: a DNA primer, a single –stranded DNA template, radioactively or fluorescently labelled nucleotides, a DNA polymerase, and modified nucleotides that play a role in terminating the DNA strand elongation. The DNA sample is divided into four separate sequencing reactions, containing the DNA polymerase and all four standard…

Introduction Before researching about the possibility of using telomerase inhibitors to kill cancer cells, we first need to know what cancer is and what telomerase is. Cancer is the name used to describe the diseases in which cell have abnormal growth or cell divides is uncontrollable and it will affect other cells. These cancer can spread to other part of the body through the blood or lymph systems. Many people think that cancer is just a disease, in fact, cancer is not just a disease but it…

The random amplified polymorphic DNA-polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR) method was used to examine the genetic variability of Aiolopus thalassinus (Fabr.) populations at heavy metal polluted and unpolluted locations of different geographical distances. Four primers yielded a total of 69 scorable bands, which are all polymorphic. Cluster and Principal component analysis separated the inside and outside Cairo populations into two main branches that were further separated into smaller ones,…

Electrophoresis Kendra Gibson November 17, 2015 A scientist drops DNA samples in small indentations at the end of a Jell-O-like gel. He turns on an electrical current at the other side of the gel. His anticipation grows as he watches the samples slowly move from one side to the other. He pulls out a ruler and makes some measurements. He steps back in surprise, for he had just identified the most feared serial killer in the world! He did this by using Gel Electrophoresis. Electrophoresis (the…