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Main Root Begins Main Root Begins To Grow Seeds
515 wordsGermination is the development of a young embryo into a young seedling. We need germination for plants to grow. With no plants there would be less oxygen and less food for animals. In germination you need water, the right temperature, sunlight, minerals, and oxygen. You need water to begin germination. When water soaks the seed coat, it splits open. The seed coat is the outer layer of the seed coat that protects it. Water softens the seed coat, making it easier to split. The temperature depends ...
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Sickle Cell Anemia Stem Cell Research
1,148 wordsEmbryonic stem cells... are in effect, a human self-repair kit, (Christopher Reeve, activist Larry King show). For the advancement of science, stem cells are infinitely valuable, especially when considering all the potential applications in the field of medicine. Stem cells usage is a very controversial topic, because most people think of abortions, cloning, and other negative topics when they here the term stem cells. However I think those thoughts are because they dont understand what a stem c...
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Genetically Identical Ethical Questions
583 wordsCloning is producing a genetically identical organism to its parent. Since 1997, there have been many examples of cloning. Two examples are of Dolly the sheep and Tetra the monkey. These two clones are examples of different techniques used for cloning. And because of the previous two examples of cloning many ethical questions have been raised. In 1997, Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and his workers produced a sheep named Dolly. What was so great about Dolly? Dolly was a clone. She was made from a...
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Transgenic Animals Human Cloning
1,487 words... ls with an apparently desirable genetic constitution. If Dolly represents one genetic copy of her mother then nuclei from the thousands of other udder cells could, with a sufficient supply of host eggs, produce a thousand Dollies - a thousand genetic replicas - in a single generation. However, here theory and practice diverge. Dolly was a single sheep produced from nearly three hundred attempts, without even counting the previous years of failed experiments. With a single result of this kind...
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Neural Tube Defects Central Nervous System
1,262 words... b. /March 1991). Spontaneous errors in development, whose causes are unknown, can happen in the central nervous system, face, gut, genitourinary system, and heart as shown in Table 2. The time during pregnancy which these may occur is also is also shown in Table 2 and ranges from twenty-three days to twelve weeks, all which fall into the first trimester. How these anomalies are triggered in birth defects is unknown. Neural Tube Defects, which causes are also unknown, are some of the most com...
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Embryonic Stem Cells Blood Sugar Levels
1,188 wordsIntroduction Type 1 Diabetes mellitus, formerly known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is a disease that is defied as a metabolism disorder. It affects about 5 - 10 % of the diabetic population estimating to about 4. 9 people worldwide. In this type of diabetes, the onset of elevated blood sugar levels usually begin abruptly in a fairly dramatic way before the age of 30 and about half of all the cases appear during childhood. The cause of diabetes type 1 is an autoimmune destruction in whi...
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Stem Cell Research Vitro Fertilization
1,113 words... the health of the mother can be proven (United 148 - 55). Many speculate that Roe v. Wade will be overturned within the next fifty years, and possibly sooner. The laws may be changed to allow abortions completely, or to forbid them completely. Stem cells will definitely play a part in this decision. It is possible that the action of using fetuses to save lives can make abortions seem less evil. To terminate one life to save others is a decision that the world must make, and not make lightly....
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Bioethics Advisory Commission National Bioethics Advisory
2,488 wordsCloning The cloning of an adult sheep and the possibility that human cloning could soon follow has raised some serious ethical questions. Some people object on a purely ethical level while others favor cloning solely for the scientific advances it will produce. In the debate over cloning, there are those who say that the scientific benefits and advances gained from cloning are beneficial to society. On the other hand there are those who feel that cloning is morally wrong and would produce both s...
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Genetic Defect Embryo Cells
2,002 wordsDocumented Paper As humanity progresses, more and more technologies are becoming available. However, while some of the technologies are deployed without any ethical considerations, there are some technologies that involve ethical dilemmas as well as high extent of public awareness. New reproductive technologies, such as cloning, are the technologies that arise a wide array of legal and ethical controversies. Although there are a lot of potential benefits associated with cloning, I believe that i...
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Clone A Human Cloning Cloning
817 wordsCloning Cloning is one of the most controversial topics in biotechnology and biomedical science today. Cloning is a technology that must be widely researched before any cloning takes place. In turn, governments take responsibility for what laws on cloning they enforce, and how these laws are enforced. The task of this paper is to explain the meaning of cloning and emphasize some important problems related to cloning process. In 1997 the first mammal, a sheep named Dolly was cloned by the group o...
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Bioethics Advisory Commission National Bioethics Advisory
2,468 wordsCloning As humanity progresses, more and more technologies are becoming available. However, while some of the technologies are deployed without any ethical considerations, there are some technologies that involve ethical dilemmas as well as high extent of public awareness. New reproductive technologies, such as cloning, are the technologies that arise a wide array of legal and ethical controversies. As the mentioned above technology have drawn the most public attention, within the course of this...
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Brave New World Social Control
1,087 wordsBRAVE NEW WORLD BRAVE New World was published in 1932. It is a remarkable piece of science fiction for both its time and our own. It seems to withstand the intervening 65 years, primarily because of its depiction of a tightly controlled, rigidly stratified homogenous society. Issues of social control are as relevant today as in 1932, perhaps more so. Reproductive technology plays a key role in the social control of Brave New World. Reproduction takes place in a Hatchery. Excised ova are inspecte...
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Brave New World Threat To Society
1,887 wordsAldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in the 1930 s. During this time the world was making its first steps in scientific and technological advances. These advances were seen not only as evidence of mans progress but also as a tremendous hope for mankind. People began to become more and more captivated with scientific progress and less and less interested in the ethical questions this progress raised. Huxley's novel shows that he felt that the hope for mankind lay not in technology but in man himse...
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Vitro Fertilization Genetically Identical
1,266 wordsCloning, Cloning Clones Clones Cloning, the process of creating a copy of a plant or animal that is genetically identical to the original through asexual means, has sparked some interesting moral and ethical debate. For years, cloning has been used to produce a greater number of a specific type of plant, such as the Macintosh apple trees, which have all been derived from single mutated plant. Now, however, upon the discovery of a method to clone animals, even humans, people are beginning to beco...
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U S News S News And World Report
3,100 wordsShortly after the announcement that British scientists had successfully cloned a sheep, Dolly, cloning humans has recently become a possibility that seems much more feasible in todays society. The word clone has been applied to cells as well as to organisms, so that a group of cells stemming from a single cell is also called a clone. Usually the members of a clone are identical in their inherited characteristics that is, in their genes except for any differences caused by mutation. Identical twi...
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Gene Therapy Defective Gene
445 wordsWhat is Gene Therapy? What types of gene therapies cure genetic diseases? Many diseases seen today are the result of a defective gene in the DNA of the patient and cannot be cured using the traditional methods such as antibiotics and antiviral medication. The victims are now looking to gene therapy as a potential cure for their problems. Gene Therapy is the process of replacing a defective gene inside a patient s DNA with a working gene that will produce the correct gene products. The genetic di...
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Human Embryo Cloning Don T Understand
734 wordsThe societal issue being addressed in this article is the cloning of humans and nuclear cell fusion. This question lingering into every household Should we be playing God? This question has substantial points on each side. Some people think that we shouldn t be manipulating nature s creations, and we should leave things the way they are because that is the way things are meant to be. Other s oppose that jurisdiction and state that we can rid the world of cancers and tumors and quite possibly sav...
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Human Genome Project British Medical Association
3,429 wordsGenetics: Issues of IVF, screening, pre-selection, genetic testing, cloning and the social implications. James Watson once said, We used to think that our fate was in our stars. Now we know that, in large measure, our fate is in our Genes (Jaroff 1998). On June 26 th 2000, The Human Genome Project will unveil its rough draft mapping of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences within the human chromosomes (genetic code), to the public. The project has been ongoing since the late eighties, and is...
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King Arthur Wage War
565 wordsLeadership Skills There are many qualities that a leader needs. If a leader has all the qualities, often they will be a better leader. In the novel, The Once and Future King by T. H. White, Merlyn, a highly educated wizard and Arthur s tutor, teaches the soon to be known King Arthur many of these qualities. However, out of all of these, three are the most important. They are to have patience, to work with what you re given, and to not wage war unnecessarily. Paragraph 1. 1. While a fish and goos...
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Cloned Embryo Cloning Humans
1,511 wordsScience vs. Ethics An elderly man is diagnosed with an aneurysm, the thinning in the wall of the aorta. In order to repair his failing artery, he receives a patch of healthy tissue-cloned from his own cells and cultured in a laboratory. A child is born free of the gene that allows sickle-cell anemia, despite both her parents being carriers. How was this possible? In the embryonic cell from which she was cloned, normal DNA was used replaced the flawed gene. Could a genius clone Hitler? Could a wa...
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