FUTURE HUMANS

HUMAN INGENUITY
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EnglishSecondary Education

This lesson contains 17 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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HUMAN INGENUITY

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FUTURE HUMANS

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CLONING

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PROPOSITION

Adriana
Blue
Sebastian R.
Sebastian B.
Eunice
Gonzalo
OPPOSITION

Alessandra
Beatriz
Sebastian C.
Salvador
Helena
Joaquin

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PROPOSITION

Ana
Andre
Victor
Shirley
Fiorella
Fernanda
OPPOSITION

Bianca
Bruno
Piero
Matias
Gabriela
Gianfranco

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Consider the following situation:
A happy couple have a lovely daughter.  They would like to have a son as well.  They are wealthy and can afford to pay a special clinic to perform IVF (in vitro fertilisation) treatment that will allow them to select the sex of their child ('sex selection or 'family balancing') One of them is eager to undergo this treatment, the other is reluctant.  Imagine a discussion they might have on this topic.

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FOR

Camila 
Claudia
Pedro
Mateo
Debora
Emily
AGAINST

Claudio 
Danna
Marian
Marcelo
Davor
Leonardo

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FOR

Camilo 
Carla
Mafer S.
Luciana
Illari
Lucia
AGAINST

Cesar
Chiara
Gianluca
Diego
Camila

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Take note of these questions:
a) What is the primary thing you need to clone an individual?
b) Why can't geneticists currently implant a human embryo into a uterus?
c) Why is it difficult for geneticists to obtain funding for their research? (2 main reasons)
d) Even if Robert Lanza could easily get more human embryos (or human 'eggs'), why might he need hundreds of them?
e) How does Robert Lanza explain the chances of have successfully cloning a human being?
f) Why does the narrator (Morgan Freeman) believe that humans will be cloned?
g) How is cloning a person not the same as duplicating a person?
h) Complete the final sentence of the video: 'Perhaps the key to life after death is not to grow an entirely new body, but to ...

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What do you think?

If you were a doctor developing the technology to clone humans, how would you answer the following questions?

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Where would you conduct your cloning of humans?

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What kinds of people would you clone?

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What is more important, creating the first human clone, or creating a "healthy" cloned child?

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Would you want the world to know about your experiments, or would you want to keep them a secret? WHY?

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