Homework Assignment #1 – worth 50 points                    

Section: E4A

Five % will be deducted from the overall score for each day of lateness.

My Heritage

Ancestry.com

            23 and me

Living DNA

  1. Locate at least one article in a magazine or periodical about this company. Use the library’s data base to locate your article. Please make a copy of this article to hand in with the assignment. The article should be a review or address controversial issues regarding the company. Write a summary of this article. Use APA style formatting for references for citing within the text (Author, Date) and for the Bibliography page of your essay. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ3010434276/OVIC?u=balt47855&sid=OVIC&xid=1d8320da
  2. Use the article and the official web site of the company to address the following questions:
  3. What type of information does the company promise to deliver?
  4. What are some issues brought up in the article in reference to the performance of this company?
  5. Based on what you have learned about this company would you use this company to analyze your DNA?? Why or why not?
  6. Consider what you have read about this company. What type of ethical issues would concern you with this type of analysis? Are these ethical issues ones that would concern you only as a customer or also as part of the general population?

https://medical.23andme.com/company/#who-we-are

Answer each question in paragraph form.

5 points for each question based on content and grammar.                  20pts.

25 points for the summary based on content and grammar.                 25pts.

5 points for annotating references in the correct format                        5 pts.

Total points:                                                                                          50pts.