I need to write an essay about a disease for my anatomy class. i want to learn about a really INTERESTING?

Question

disease, and then write an essay about it. Any good ideas?

Answer 1

I vote for tumors. Choose your favorite tumor (lung, prostate, breast, lymphomas, and tons of others), and then concentrate on research papers that emphasize the difference in methylation patterns within genes or non-geneic sequences associated with the tissue type.

Most research papers will compare normal tissue with its tumor counterpart from the same patients. This lends to easy comparisons in your paper.

I did a paper like this, but I chose an open ended biological system that causes many diseases: Apoptosis. My personal goal was to learn about something I knew very little about.

I learned so much, but it was frustrating for me to tie all the info together, so that the reader of my essay could easily understood the whole cascade and it consequences when it goes awry.

I bit off more than I could chew, but got an "A" because I was able to, in the end, communicate what I wanted to. I had to simplify.

I wish you well.

I had fun thinking about your question. Pass on the good Karma!

Answer 2

How about morbid obesity? Many people don't think being overweight is a big problem, but it leads to all sorts of other diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure, which often lead to premature death.

Or sleep apnea? This is where you stop breathing in your sleep for short periods of time.

Parkinson disease, epilepsy and leprosy are some other ideas.

Good luck with your essay!

Answer 3

I had to do a midterm project similar to that for my anatomy class last quarter. I picked Eczema. It is a skin disease. Wikipedia is an excellent website to check out.

Answer 4

Look into prion diseases, like variant Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease. They're interesting because they're not caused by a bacteria, virus, or protist. They're actually caused by infectious proteins. I think they're neat, anyway.

Answer 5

Look into AIDS. Look at where it came from. Look at where its progressed too. Look at how it got where it is. Look at the fact condums don't stop it because of normal cracks in the rubber of the condum are too large to stop the smaller Virus causing AIDS. Look at how to prevent it and how we could rid of ti worldwide in a couple of generations if we practiced the right things. I double dog dare you!!

Answer 6

Try looking up hypertrichosis. It was very interesting for some students of mine when I assigned a similar project.

Answer 7

graves disease go to yahoo and type it in