2014-12-15 Evening: cloning discussion

Greg Malivuk
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(#blacklivesmatter protests, #millionsmarchNYC)
Eric Garner - killed by NYPD in August, no indictment for the officer Dec 3
Mike Brown - killed in Ferguson, Missouri, in August, also no indictment
Tamir Rice - 12-year-old boy shot in Cleveland, Ohio, for holding a toy gun
John Crawford III - man shot in an Ohio Walmart for carrying a BB gun (which they sell at Walmart)
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Homework: p. 70-74 - reading and questions
p. 72 part B
1 physics
2 revered (for making atoms relevant to society) and feared (for what their 'toys' could do if they were to fall into the hands of evil)
3 "critics began likening these 'recombinant' DNA procedures to the physicist's power to break apart atoms" - recombining DNA was seen as "parallel" to recombining parts of atoms
4 Rearranging DNA might cause diseases that are capable of seriously disrupting human civilization.
5 Most forms of DNA manipulation are now unregulated, except for experiments aimed at learning how to insert functional genetic material into human germ cells.
6 Human germ cells (sperm and eggs).
7 Human germ-line manipulation (again: sperm and egg cell DNA manipulation)
8 The creation of "superpersons".
9 in plants
10 They're likely to pass unnoticed in later life.
11 Better procedures must be developed before more couples commit.

DNA molecules might impart to their host cells disease-causing capacity.
= Recombined DNA might give cells the ability to cause diseases.

p. 73 part C
1 c
2 a
3 c
4 b
5 c
6 a ("It cuts both ways.")
7 b
8 a
9 a
10 c
11 b (more accurately: unsupported)
12 c
13 b
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Such creations will remain denizens of science fiction.
= "Superman" will only live in fiction.

Rubicon: the river that Julius Caesar crossed with his armies to take control of Rome

selective breeding
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"Blueprint" - novel from the perspective of the cloned daughter of a composer

"Orphan Black" - TV show dealing with ethical questions of genetic experiments and cloning

bioethics
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p. 76-77 part C: Vocabulary reinforcement: Word Forms