Natural abortions are typically called miscarriages. Medically-induced abortions, which can be completed with surgery or with hormone drugs, are performed because the foetus is unwanted, deformed, not likely to live, or endangers the mother's life or health.
The dog genome project is a collaborative study involving scientists at the University of California, The University of Oregon, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center aimed at producing a map of all of the chromosomes in dogs, which can be used to map the genes causing disease and those genes controlling morphology and behavior.
Shadow's genome project could take years, but for now researchers have the map of the dog genome. The map is a resource that researchers can use to undertake genome-wide scans for genes of interest with a high degree of confidence, says Ostrander.It will allow investigators to study the nitty-gritty of how gene families are arranged in the dog..he dog genome is basically the human genome divided into about 70 different pieces and rearranged on a greater number of chromosomes, according to a new map of the dog genome.