2015-04-28 Evening: cloning discussion

Greg Malivuk
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Discuss your answers to the homework questions in groups of 4 or 5.
https://dogbehaviorscience.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/100-years-of-breed-improvement/
(changes in the past 100 years that have hurt the health and happiness of dog breeds)

selective breeding / artificial selection

What if you could clone every part of a person except the brain?

eugenics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_Hensel
(conjoined twins in Minnesota that share their entire body)
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Books and movies about genetic engineering and cloning (and related issues of identity, etc.):
The Island (movie where rich people keep cloned backup copies on an island)
A.I. (movie)
My Sister’s Keeper (book about a genetically engineered daughter to save her sister)
GATTACA (movie about a future where (almost) everyone has genetically selected traits)
Flowers for Algernon (book)
Orphan Black (TV series about cloning and other bio-ethics questions)
	(Tatiana Maslany is the main actress, who plays something like 9 different characters)
The Minds of Billy Milligan (book about a man with multiple identities)
Jurassic Park / Jurassic World
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neurodivergent / neuroatypical - having a brain and nervous system that works differently from the typical
(contrasted with neurotypical)
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Homework: “Raise the Issues” p. 79-81 (count and noncount nouns grammar)