Cloning and the Genome Project

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Cloning and the Genome Project
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• July 5 1996,Dolly,the first mammal to
  be cloned from an adult somatic cell was born

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IVF(in-vitro fertilization)

• July 25 1978, Robert Edwards made the humans egg
  fertilized in the test tube
• It means that the human can be fertilized and
  form new lives outside the womb
• He won the Nobel Prize
• in medicine in 2010

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Test tube babies

• The progress removes ova(eggs) from the
  woman's ovaries and letting  sperm  fertilize
  them in a fluid medium. The fertilized egg
  (zygote) is then transferred to the patient's
  uterus with the intent to establish a successful
  pregnancy.

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Cloned animals

• A sheep can be cloned ,how about the human?
• In theory,it is possible,but it will involve
  many ethical problems.Imagine that one day you go
  home and find a people who looks exactly the same
  with you is having dinner with your family!!!What
  should you do?

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• Should human cloning be legalized?

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• Benefits?
• 1. Infertility
• 2. Curing Diseases
• 3. Body Replacements
• 4.Genetic Illness

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• Disadvantages?
• 1. Religion
• 2. Sub-Human
• 3. Embryos at Risk

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Vocabulary
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• Mammary ???
• Denoting or relating to the human female
  breasts or the milk-secreting organs of other
  mammals
• Ewe ??
• Ethical ????
• Genome ???
• The complete set of genes or genetic material
  present in a cell or organism

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• Enucleated ???
• Remove the nucleus from (a cell)
• Infertile ???
• (of a person, animal, or plant) Unable to
  reproduce
• Gestated ??
• Carry (a fetus) in the womb from conception to
  birth
• Fetus ??
• An unborn offspring of a mammal

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• Embryo ??

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• Preimplantation ?????
• Occurring between the fertilization of an ovum
  and its implantation in the wall of the uterus
• Discarding ??
• Get rid of (someone or something) as no longer
  useful or desirable
• Kinship ????
• Blood relationship
• Somatic-cell ???
• Any cell of a living organism other than the
  reproductive cells

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• Gamete ??
• A mature haploid male or female germ cell
  that is able to unite with another of the
  opposite sex in sexual reproduction to form a
  zygote
• Prenatal ????
• Before birth during or relating to pregnancy
• Abortion ??
• The expulsion of a fetus from the uterus by
  natural causes before it is able to survive
  independently