Blog #8 - Post Mice gentics 6/20

 

My new topic is focused on animal testing and how it benefits the human society, with the focus on mice and chimpanzee in particular. One of the avenues that I decided to go down concerning my topic was how closely mice genetics related to human genetics. I feel as though that it’s very important to understand the complete genetic, mental, and physical comparisons that the specific animals being tested share with humans. When concerning mice, I was able to find out that we as humans share a lot of the same genetic makeup of mice, which allows us to use mice to further research human diseases.

I came across a scholarly source that explains how the genetic makeup of mice is used to help us research human diseases. “The advantages of the mouse for behavioral studies include an extensive array of genetic technologies and an elaborate behavioral repertoire that can be used to create models of human disease.”(The Mouse: Genetics meets Behavior) The article goes into intense detail about the inside structure of a mouse and its behavior phenotypes. The article explains how mice are model organism when concerning animal testing, which is the main reason they are the most tested on. “The mouse is especially important as a model organism for behavioral studies because of the ability to manipulate its genome and to observe the resulting phenotypic consequences using molecular, cellular and electrophysiological approaches.” (The Mouse: Genetics Meets Behavior).

  http://www.nature.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/nrg/journal/v3/n2/full/nrg728.html

The article is good grounds for the basis of my research paper and helps me explain why animal testing is indeed beneficial to human society. This article will lead me into a multitude of other topics concerning animal testing such as the actual test being done and how they are done.   

Blog #3 - New Topic 6/6

This is my third blog and I will take this time to talk about my new topic for my research paper, which is about animal testing and how it benefits the human society. Even though I feel strongly in the belief that my topic on equal animal rights for all animals domestic and non-domestic was researchable, the topic may have been to complex as it went down a various amount of avenues.

I will be focusing on the two most common animals that have been and still are being tested on, which are mice and monkeys. I will research why these two animals are the most tested? What similarities do these animals share with humans? What are the different test being done on these animals? How do these test help the human society? How do these test help us figure out more about these animals?

Obviously this is a researchable topic that is very direct and to the point, but it has more than enough statistical information, scholarly sources, and documented events. This topic is a very basic one but it still carries a lot of great information that a lot of people are un a where of. A very informative topic that will help people understand more why animal testing is done and how it's beneficial to the human society.

I though this was a good site that could be a good base to start my research paper. https://www.animalgenetics.us/

Blog #2 6/4 Research topic

This blog is going to concern my research topic as about equal rights for all animals, why non-domestic animals deserve to have the same rights as domestic animals. Let me start by saying that the definition of a research paper is "A research paper is the culmination and final product of an involved process of research, critical thinking, source evaluation, organization, and composition." - (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/658/02/ ) Let it be known that anything can be research no matter what the topic, this is why we as humans know as much about all the different things and issues in the world as we do, because of the studies and overall research that was done to understand everything. The reasons why topics are broad or may have easy yes or no answers is because of the research that was done before hand.

My topic about equal animal rights for all animals is one that has a mountain full of statistical, factual and currently developing information about the differences and similarities in almost every way when concerning domestic and non-domestic animals. Their emotional and instinctual behavior will be documented, the documented differences between animals living in the wild and the human society and what the results of this our will also be expressed. The animal activist organizations will be imprinted in the research paper as well, the work that some have done and the and the statistical information that represents them. Although very broad as there are lots of animal activist organizations I think it would be a injustice to just focus on one, as the issue is much greater than one organization, or one particular animal.

I believe that a point will be made but a key question will be asked which is the result of all research papers. The idea is to enlighten someone about a particular topic or issue it is up to that person weather or not they wont to except the information. If there is a question or questions at the end then I feel as though I intrigued the reader enough to ask the question or questions.       

Blog #1 Free - The Intro Blog 6/2

   

My name is Joshua Freelove and I'm a student at University at Buffalo. I also play basketball for the university as well as major in History. Just recently I was given an assignment in my English 201 class which asked me to come up with an interesting research topic concerning animals and technology. I was able to embrace the issue of whether or not animals deserve civil rights and if so should it only be assessable for domestic animals or should it be assessable for all animals. The boundaries that we should have between animals and humans is essentially what I will be discussing in my research paper. Also the bias of humans when it comes to animals and what rights they deserve. The mental evolution of humans have led to the different opinions about animals in certain regions of the world. In some regions of the world the less technologically sound ones eat domestic animals, whereas the more technologically advance ones have found other ways to feed, cloth, and supply themselves. A once naturally common act of hunting is now seen as barbaric, primitive and in-human. Now dogs and cats have health plans and humans can go to jail if they poorly treat them. The world has changed concerning this issue weather this is a good thing or not, I will soon find out.