Millions of dollars are spent to treat cancer because it would be much easier and more helpful to treat all the people in the world who have cancer than to try and prevent it from happening at all. Cancer can be hereditary or be caused by hazardous lifestyles such as smoking or it can just be an unlucky occurance, but in order to prevent cancer in general it would takes much time and money that some ill people do not have. The children and adults of the world who already have cancer can be treated with the money spent on treatments as opposed to spendig the millions of dollars on treating people who have not yet contracted the disease.

     Simply put, if people were to simply stop smoking that would definiately decrease the number of people in the world with cancer. Programs in schools that are against tobacco use such as TATU, SADD, DARE, and the like could be strengthened to to help change these things. The younger you start with awareness on these issues the more likely it is that the knowledgable word will be spread. Organizations like NOT could be instituted in schools as well as in an adult’s lifestyle, helping people to overcome their tobacco use and prevent some of the cancer cases in the world.

     Factors that might help with the success of these programs would be if the government or several medical facilities would crack down on their warnings about tobacco use. Yes, there is a Surgeon General’s warning on tobacco products and alcohol, but that doesn’t stop people. Every once in a while a commercial or add aainst tabacco use is put on tv, but how helpful is that if a person can simply turn the channel and pretend they never saw it. Something serious and eye-opening must be done to help the cause.

The Human Genome Project is a very important scientific study. It’s purpose is to be able to map out the sequence of human DNA. This information is vital to science and the information we will one day need to know to help the people of the future. Genomes are analyzed by examining how they work in different sections of the body and how they work. This will be very beneficial to the scientific and medical worlds in the future. The biggest challenge of the Human Gemone Project was the need for a 10,000 fold improvement on the previous methods of mapping and sequencing DNA.

The Human Genome Project will be beneficial to the medicine field because our children could use the help fifty years from now. The molecular basis of humans and their DNA is complicated to understand and the key to recovery from these diseases is proper therapies. These therapies can be found through the Genome Project as we can find out what makes them work and what they control in humans.

This project is related to evolution because of the availability of genomic data. Scientists now have the ability to reconstruct complex sequences of several organisms’ DNA. They can find the most rapidly evoling genes and what they trigger. Today’s organisms contain lab notes of previous experiments, allowing scientists to go back and reconstruct the events that took place.

     Photosynthesis contributes to many different areas in life. For example, without photosynthesis there would be no food. Without food there would be no life at all. Though photosynthesis is generally looked at as having to do with plants, it also contributes to the human body by allowing the carbohydrates we burn to combine with oxygen and become oxidized. This produces carbon dioxide, which is released when we breath. Just like plants, we use photosynthesis to survive.
     The energy used to run factories and used as fuels can directly be traced to photosynthesis. The carbohydrate cellulose makes up wood and other plant materials, so when we burn these things, we are turnig the cellulose into carbon dioxide and release stored energy in the form of heat. This is how energy is tied to the production of most energy fuels.
     Photosynthesis also contributes to the production of many materials in nature. Wool is made by using energy produced in photosynthesis, as well as all other plant and animal-made products. Paper, made from cellulose, cannot be made without photosynthesis. Cellulose is created during photosynthesis. Even metals and plastics need photosynthesis to be made, as the factories that produce these things run on coal and the energy in coal originally came from sunlight via photosynthesis.
     Photosynthesis and electronics are closely related because the study of photosynthesis allows for comprehension of how to make computers using the smallest possible unit of material. Also, it is an intriguing thought to have a computer that could send information through light energy as opposed to using electrons. Learning how plants absorb light through photosynthesis helps with this research and makes it easier for advances in electronics to be reached.
     Photosynthesis reasearch and experiments can also help with medical issues and experiments such as skin cancer. The fact that sunlight is absorbed by plants and causes tissue damage can be used to help destroy tumors. By illuminating the tumor caused by cancer, photochemical damage can be done and destroy the tumor without actually causing tissue damage. The studies of and application of one’s knowledge of photosynthesis to the medical field can be applied to many things, cancer simply being a start.