Knowing what you do about the differences between phenotype and genotype do you think that would be a fair basis by which to determine whether someone should be insured? Why or why not?

Read Chapter 5, Macroevolution and Taxonomy and Chapter 7, Genotypic Traits and the Tracing of Population Affiliations in Human Biological Diversity by Daniel E. Brown.

View Lecture 6: Four Forces of Evolution.

View Lecture 7: Blood Groups.

View Lecture 8: HLA Antigens and Hemoglobin Variants

View Lecture 9: Human Biochemical Diversity

View Lecture 10: Taxonomy.

Question

In the recent past health insurance companies have proposed requiring people applying for health insurance to give genetic information about themselves. Knowing what you do about the differences between phenotype and genotype do you think that would be a fair basis by which to determine whether someone should be insured? Why or why not?