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What’s changed in genetics since your high school biology class?

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    August 2, 2016
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    Saint Louis University Medical Center
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    The field of genetics has seen astonishing breakthroughs and the development of world-changing technologies in the past half century.
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The field of genetics has seen dramatic changes over the last half-century.
Credit: Image courtesy of the National Institutes of Health, adapted by Ellen Hutti, Saint Louis University

The field of genetics has seen astonishing breakthroughs and the development of world-changing technologies in the past half century. With such rapid progress, the field has likely raced well beyond the high school biology textbook your class used to study alleles, fruit flies and eye color inheritance.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160802172614.htm
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Re: What’s changed in genetics since your high school biology class?
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2016, 04:45:15 pm »
Reminds me of a girl I know who was getting her nursing degree while still in High School couple of years back. She showed me her anatomy book to me one day and said 'this is so hard'.

I looked thru it and gave it back, telling her that alot of that information has only been discovered within her lifetime, and if this were 30 or 40 years ago she would have been a pioneering world class specialist to even know it. Think that kind of helped her put it into perspective after that.
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