Gene's World

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...Gene, earned a sole point at the Nurburgring in the European Grand Prix, thus gaining one more point than he was expected to do. Arguably his major asset to Minardi was the vast amount of sponsorship he attracted to the team, although the one point was a bonus. He has experienced a chequered career in his forming years with a string of karting successes in his homeland. Made the natural step up to Formula Ford racing and then chanced his arm in the British Formula Three Championship. He failed to win any titles and actually did not gain a single win in Britain on the Formula Three circuit, although he was studying in England at the time. The Spaniard is a popular driver on the Formula One scene and is something of a bookworm as he is an avid reader of business magazines. Bizarre fact ? his favourite book is Wilt by Tom Sharp....

Mohammed 21.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Marc Gene

The Selfish Gene: A review

Advantages: Lucid, enjoyable, informative, gripping
Disadvantages: None

...The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins was first published in 1976. Even after 31 years of its first publication, it remains an international best seller. Dawkins, an expert in his field (Evolutionary Biology) explains complex biological ideas in a very interesting and lucid way so that even a layman can understand him. In essence, this book explains the theory of evolution by natural selection from genes' action point of view. He explains, through numerous examples that the ultimate goal of any gene is to survive in future generations. To do so, the genes adapt to the environment and if necessary resort to "exploitation" and "deceit"; and hence the name "Selfish Gene". The genes that are thus successful in adapting favourably towards the changing environment are selected by the nature and they pass on to the future generations. Others...

data_ray 15.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

Today's word is GENE

Advantages: A good way to broaden the mind with respect to genetics
Disadvantages: Difficult to understand for the wrong audience

...The author of this book, Richard Dawkins, is a professor at Oxford University, so you know that what you are about to read is going to be some pretty neat stuff. The book examines the gene as the replicator of DNA, and how every gene is selfish in that it wants to get itself replicated more than any of the other genes it is competing with. Sometimes however these genes benefit and do better in the presence of other genes than they would do on their own, and so organisms form. The book is based strongly on Darwinian Theory of Natural Selection; the Survival of the Fittest. That is, a gene that is fitter than others metaphorically speaking, will benefit the body it is in, and so it will be more likely to be passed on to the offspring. Dawkins takes us through 13 chapters of tales and stories, as well as imagined situations in...

RussellC 05.06.2002 · Read review
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Review of The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

GENE TECHNOLOGY

Advantages: health
Disadvantages: potential harm caused

...The use of gene technology is beneficial to humans? Gene technology, which can also be called recombinant DNA technology, is where scientists take a gene from one organism and transfer it into another so that it will replicate and be passed on to progeny cells. The two main uses of genetic engineering are in health care and agriculture. Genetic engineering has been used to make useful chemicals, including various drugs, which are expensive to produce any other way such as antibiotics and vaccines. Human hormones can be made such as insulin. People who suffer from diabetes are unable to produce insulin and have to inject them selves with insulin everyday. For many years insulin has been obtained by extracting it from the pancreases of cattle and pigs after they have been slaughtered, however there are a great deal of problems...

ilusvm 03.11.2004 · Read review
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Review of Essays

Genius for genes

Advantages: ability to contact other researchers
Disadvantages: expensive if adding more than 1 tree, information can be copied

...Genes Reunited.co.uk is a website originally set up by the Friends Reunited people and is for those people who are tracing their family trees. www.genesreunited.co.uk is free to join - but if you want to email other researcher it is £9.95 per year (this can be paid as Single Membership or as Continuous Membership) and is a pay per view site for other items such as census. You can add your family tree on here too, and there are some records to search as well as other people's trees, which you may not be able to access without paying the above fee. Single Membership is where you pay a one off fee - best to start off with to see if you find the site of use, but then I transferred to Continuous Membership which means I get a message to remind me that the fee will be taken off my Credit Card or Debit Card (I believe you can use either). I...

werewolf 02.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Genesreunited.co.uk

Hail the Gene Genie

Advantages: As good as it gets
Disadvantages: Don't be daft

...and feel satisfied but watching it again (and again) is very rewarding. Take a look at the lawman beating up the wrong guy Tyler?s confusion is not helped by the fact that no one else is surprised to see him. He is, if not exactly welcomed, at least expected as it appears that he has been transferred from a neighbouring division and he is soon crossing paths with his nemesis in the show; Gene Hunt. Hunt is pretty much everything a modern audience wants in a 1970?s throwback old school copper. The hard drinking, the aggression and the short cuts, the whole ?Put your trousers on son, you?re nicked? Sweeney experience is here in good order. He?s racist, sexist, violent and on the take. He beats up witnesses and suspects alike and has no time at all for due process. The fact that we love him and his ?roguish? ways is due in equal...

brereton66 24.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Life On Mars - Series 1 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

The 'Gene Revolution'

Advantages: Could reduce the food shortage problems in LEDCs...
Disadvantages: ...or could do quite the opposite!

...knock-on effects and help the overall development of the country, both economically and socially. However, the British Medical Association has its concerns over the safety of such crops and, although there is no evidence that GM affects health, it is thought by the Royal Society that changing the composition of food could lead to nutritional deficiencies in vulnerable groups such as infants, pregnant women, the elderly and people with chronic disease. A concern raised by scientists is that antibiotic-resistant genes could escape from GM crops and enter the genes of other living things, such as bacteria. When people are infected by the antibiotic-resistant bacteria, infection can become impossible to treat. This has led to fears of plagues, although the risk is very remote. The possible negative effects of each crop should be scientifically...

pragmatik 02.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of Essays

Jeans for Genes

Advantages: You get to help 8 different charities
Disadvantages: None

...I just thought I would tell you about ?Jeans for Genes? It is a national appeal to raise funds for research into genetic disorders and provide advice and support to raise funds for research into genetic disorders and provide advice and support to affected individuals and their families. Jeans for Genes Day is on Friday 3 October 2003 ? sorry I have left it a bit late to tell you about it but if you can?t get involved this year it is held about the same time each year. Everyone across the UK is invited to throw out the usual dress rules (within reason!) and jump into their jeans in exchange for just £1. The Human Genome project discovered that a human has around 33,000 genes. This is only twice as many as a roundworm. In fact 55% of your DNA is the same as a banana. However, please don't let this stop you from joining in...

hellywelly 26.09.2003 · Read review
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Review of Everything that starts with G ...

Rather Disappointing

Advantages: Raises some interesting points on reincarnation
Disadvantages: Very 'bitty', doesn't flow together very well.

...strike up a conversation with him. The man only identifies himself as Gene, or Satan's Oath. North asks Gene how he knew to ask for him by name, but he doesn't answer, just shouts at North that he is the only one who can make it go away. A struggle ensues and Gene escapes, injuring a mounted officer in the process, he takes the officers horse and escapes through the park. North manages to keep up with Gene until he is close enough to tackle him. But during the scuffle Gene stabs North in the thigh, Gene has injected North with something. This is where North's nightmares begin and he begins to find out precisely who and what he is. The book not only follows Gene and North, but also flashes back to Cyclades and his arch nemesis Athanatos. And also a man called Porter who has lived many years in the Lebanon and surrounding areas seeking out...

Fiver29 17.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Gene - Stel Pavlou

Genes reunited

Advantages: Easy to understand, Easy to find information
Disadvantages: Very hard to remove wrong information added by mistake.

...On the whole I have been very pleased with Genes reunited, The things I like about it are that it has a very clear way of looking at your tree, and it is easy to click on to relatives to find out more about their siblings etc. What I don't like about it is, having to pay extra to look at the images of census. etc. Ancestry, though more expensive to join does let you see original census images etc. without further charge. The main thing I dislike about Genes reunited is, it is very difficult to delete the wrong information once a person has been added by mistake to a family tree! If you want to delete a member of your family tree, and you have added them as a partner or a sibling or a daughter by mistake, it just will not let you delete that one person .I had to demolish most of my family tree, over a year's work!! I had to delete...

onemoretrythenoff 19.07.2008 (17.07.2008) · Read review
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Review of Genesreunited.co.uk