THEMES AND ISSUES IN BIOSCIENCE

Themes and issues in bioscience

Themes and issues in bioscience

Introduction

Female promiscuity, the usual sexy demeanour for most animals, may be essential for the survival of a species, U.K. biologists say. Two crop soars friend throughout an trial by U.K. investigators into feminine promiscuity, or polyandry. The study proposes promiscuous females may be the key to the species' survival.Two crop soars friend throughout an trial by U.K. investigators into feminine promiscuity, or polyandry. The study proposes promiscuous females may be the key to the species' survival. (University of Exeter)

Discussion

This expansion of information and the powers it brings shows no signs of slowing, and will undoubtedly convey vast benefits in diagnosing, stopping, and curing disease, and in advancing agriculture. However, a plentiful array of the same tools, techniques, and information that have beneficent uses could, if misapplied, be used to destroy human life or agriculture on a mass scale. (Weekly 2001:909)While it is not a new occurrence that technologies can have positive and contradictory consequences, biological science is exclusive in that its powers over both life and death are deep, and the heritage of bioscience is open and somewhat accessible, especially when contrasted to atomic weapons research.

 

Discussion

Researchers at the University of Exeter and the University of Liverpool revising crop soars discovered that females having multiple friends decreased the risk of a community of soars going extinct. The occurrence of females having multiples friends, called polyandry, is the norm for most animal species, but biologists aren't certain why. The researchers investigated two assemblies of crop go by plane populations, one that was permitted to friend routinely, where the females had multiple male partners, and one monogamous assembly, where the females were restricted to one mate.

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