Jump Into The Gene Pool Summary

The chapter Jump into The Gene Pool tells us about the random modifications that genetics and DNA, suffer due to mutation or gene jumping. Exist several causes by which gene can jumping occur: environmental stress genes or a disorder affecting their motion. At the same time, through this reading I have gotten a better understanding about the jumping DNA, which is a small sequence of DNA that move itself within the genome of the cell. Also, I found very interesting the creation of the first vaccine by Edward Jenner, theories like the Weismann Barrier and other concepts that helped scientists to have a better understanding of antibodies, genes and viruses.
According to this chapter, it is said that all human cells are like a soup made of mammal, bacteria, and virus ingredients, since the human cells contain different bacterias that perform several helpful functions in our body; also, scientists believe that ⅓ of human DNA is from viruses, which shows that as viruses as bacterias have helped in the evolution of human cells.
Viruses can be very simple, however there have
The sun radiation caused a mutation in the flu strand and consequently, no vaccines were ready to treat this new type of mutated virus, in other words, it is very curious how new viruses or modificated viruses can be formed by environmental causes. At the same time, I would research about the Weismann Barrier, which consists that the inheritable characteristics are transmitted by the somatic cells and those characteristics are obtained in the lifetime of the organism are not inherited. I found this theory a little confusing but at the same time curious, so I would research this theory to answer questions such as “What would happen in the process if retroviruses take