2015-04-21 Evening: genetic research

Greg Malivuk
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p. 64
diagnosis

hypochondria - condition where a person always believes or worries that they are sick
(hypochondriac - a person with hypochondria)

gauge - rhymes with “cage” and “age”, not with “gouge”
knowledge - rhymes with “college”, not with “know+ledge”
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p. 66 part A
1 manipulate
2 gauge
3 reluctant
4 stellar (= very good; “brilliant” can also mean “very bright” or “very smart”, which “stellar” can’t mean)
5 staggering
6 ramifications (especially varied, far-reaching consequences)
7 specter (= ghost, in this example it means the thing that is feared, not the fear itself)
8 screening
9 intervention
10 predisposition
11 stricken (past participle of “strike”, simple past is “struck”)
traits: features, characteristics, especially of plants and animals
consent: permission to do something, especially to one’s body
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks - A woman whose cancer cells were taken (without her consent) in 1951 for medical research. Her family didn’t know about it until the 1970s.

https://www.23andme.com/ - for $99, the company will analyze your genetics to tell you about your family’s history and ancestry (they don’t give medical information any more)
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“Ignorance is bliss.” = If I don’t know about it, it’s not going to make me unhappy.

colorblindness = the condition where some colors are harder to distinguish than they are for people with normal vision
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Homework: p. 70-74: reading and questions