Unit 8 Legal and Moral Implications of Cloning.ppt

1、New Horizon College English,Unit 8 Legal and Moral Implications of Cloning,BOOK 3,Proverbs, Quotes and Sayings,Background Information,Book3 Unit8,1. Cloning: The process of making a genetically identical organism through nonsexual means.,Book3 Unit8,Background Information,Dolly, the famous cloned sh

2、eep,2. Bill Clinton: the 42nd President of the United States (1993-2001).,Book3 Unit8,Background Information,3. Theory of Relativity: in physics, the problem of how physical laws and measurements change when considered by observers in various states of motion. Thus, relativity is concerned with meas

3、urements made by different observers moving relatively to one another. In classical physics it was assumed that all observers anywhere in the universe, whether moving or not, obtained identical measurements of space and time intervals. According to relativity theory, this is not so, but their result

4、s depend on their relative motions.,Book3 Unit8,Background Information,Relativity-formula,Albert Einstein,4. DNA: (deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸) the chemical at the center of the cells of living things which controls the structure and purpose of each cell and carries genetic information during repro

5、duction.,Book3 Unit8,Background Information,Raelians Claim First Cloned Baby A baby girl has been born through cloning on Thursday, according to French scientist and member of the Raelian sect Brigitte Boisselier. The birth went very well, said Boisselier, president of the human cloning society Clon

6、aid. The Raelians, who claim 55,000 followers worldwide, believe life on Earth established by extra-terrestrials who arrived in flying saucers 25,000 years ago, and that humans themselves were created by cloning. They claim that cloning will enable humanity to attain eternal life.,Book3 Unit8,Backgr

7、ound Information,Human cloning flawed.,6. Therapeutic Cloning There are two commonly discussed types of human cloning: therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. Therapeutic cloning involves cloning cells from an adult for use in medicine and is an active area of research: while reproductive cloning would involve making cloned human beings. Such reproductive cloning has not been performed and is illegal in many countries.,Book3 Unit8,Background Information,No miracle cures in the near future, if at all,7. Present Situation The current team of scientists, led by researc