World's Shortest Wedding

Wow, even Britney Spears' 10 hour wedding lasted longer than this! I decided to keep this the Medical Hodgepodge blog. I kind of like posting about my studies all on their own. My battle stories about the retirement community will now merge with the Strange Daze blog. Yeah, I know...who gives shit? Probably besides me, nobody. But I like to keep track.

It's A Nice Day for a Blog Wedding

Now hear this! The Medical Hodgepodge blog and the Gerri Atrik Retirement Community Blog have merged and become one for the sake of simplicity. The blog is now Caretaker's Hell. Read it and weep.

Genetically Modified Foods

This is from a biology class discussion on genetically modified foods.

While there might be advantages to having crops that are pest resistant, would the same mutations that make them pest resistant also produce negative effects in humans? For instance, might these foods take on qualities that may be carcinogenic? While there is no problem with creating hybrid foods that are already eaten by humans, for instance an apple with mixed qualities of two different apples or if the aspects of an orange and a grapefruit were combined, I personally don't wish to eat foods that have been altered in ways that might be detrimental and until the products of an insect-resistant super-crop are proved not to be detrimental to humans and domestic animals, I don't want to be consuming it.
I personally don't use products such as milk containing BGH. Maybe there is nil negative effect, but maybe not. Wherever possible, when it comes to food, I prefer not to mess with Mother Nature.

allelic frequency

This is from a discussion of genotype variation in the biology class that I have been taking. Today was the last day of the class. I didn't expect to feel this way but I'm kind of sorry its over. The subject matter was actually starting to become interesting to me.

The allelic frequencies in a population such as the US will have greater shifts than a country such as China due to the greater range of genetic variation. Persons of various racial backgrounds reside in a country such as the United States whereas a country such as China is reasonably homogenous for phenotype and thus presumably also fairly homogenous in it range of genotypes. If there were an influx of immigrants of other racial types to China over the next 25 years, there would be new alleles introduced into the offspring of couples of mixed racial types. This would cause a greater variation in alleles.