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Advanced Medical English

Advanced Medical English. Unit 2– Cloning and the Genome Project. B9502055 Casear Chen B9502090 David Tai. Reading 1 : Summary.

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Advanced Medical English

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  1. Advanced Medical English Unit 2– Cloning and the Genome Project B9502055 Casear Chen B9502090 David Tai

  2. Reading 1 : Summary Cloning is one of several techniques potentially available to select, control, or alter the genome of offspring. Obviously, this technique will pose a great challenge on ethics, laws and our society.

  3. Dolly with Her Mother

  4. Dolly and her first-born lamb, Bonnie

  5. Question • Can you give a brief description about the procedure to clone Dolly?

  6. Cloning

  7. C. The answer should take into account the benefits sought through the use of the techniques and any potential harm to offspring or to other interests.

  8. Question • Why would some parents choose cloning to have babies?

  9. Question If you are able to rear a cloned celebrity, which person would be the one and why?

  10. A. Given this reality, cloning is most likely to sought by couples who, because of infertility, a high risk of severe genetic disease or other factors, cannot or do not wish to conceive a child.

  11. D. In the more distant future, it is even possible that the child whose DNA was replicated would not have been burn healthy but would have been made healthy gene therapy after birth.

  12. Reading 2 : Summary Twins are interesting subject for scientists because of their similarities of behaviors, and psychologies. The University of Minnesota’s Center of Twin and Adoption Research wants to find out whether it is genes or the environment that plays a more important role.

  13. The Maury Povich show

  14. Barbara Herbert & Her Twin Sister

  15. What's Special About Twins to Science? Allow us to determine how genes and environment influence... falling in love divorce aging vocational choices talents and abilities health

  16. Mortality of Twins

  17. Maternal Age

  18. Is Fecundity Heritable?

  19. Is the Risk of Divorce Heritable?

  20. THE ISLAND Lincoln Six-Echo and Jordan Two-Delta are among the hundreds of residents of a contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, everything about their day-to-day lives is monitored, seemingly for their own good. The only way out--and the hope they all share--is to be chosen to go to The Island, reportedly the last uncontaminated spot in the world following an ecological disaster that took the lives of everyone on the planet except them. Lincoln findthe truth when his growing curiosity leads to the terrible discovery that everything about his existence is a lie, that The Island is a cruel hoax and that he, Jordan and everyone they know are actually more valuable dead than alive…

  21. Question Have you ever met twins? Can you share something interesting about twins?

  22. Question time

  23. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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