HUMAN CLONING AND THE
CHALLENGE OF REGULATION
VOCABULARY
mammary (adj.) 乳房的
 ewe (n.) 母羊
 feasible (adj.) 可行的
 rear (v.) 養育;飼養
 bizarre (adj.) 奇異的
 scenario (n.) 情節;情景
 entrepreneur (n.) 企業家
 enucleate (v.) 摘除細胞核
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VOCABULARY
plausible (adj.) 似真實有理的
 infertile (adj.) 不孕的
 gestate (v.) 懷孕
 prenatal (adj.) 產前的
 in line with= in accordance with
 kinship (n.) 親屬
 conceive (v.) 懷孕
 coitally (adv.) 性交地 coitus (n.)
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ACTIVITY
ethical
 fertile
 feasible
 legal
 social
 responsible
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unethical
infertile
infeasible
illegal
antisocial
irresponsible
MAIN IDEA
There are many pros and cons of cloning and
how to ensure that the technology is used to
enhance, rather than limit, individual freedom
and welfare.
 Human cloning is a plausible way to solve many
medical problems we haven’t dealt with and we
shouldn’t completely ban it.
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SUPPORTING INFORMATION 1
Theoretically, cloning would enable rich or
powerful persons to clone themselves several
times over.
 Current reproductive techniques can also be
abused, and existing laws against selling
children would apply to those by created by
cloning.
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What is the bizarre or horrific scenarios in the
first sentence of third paragraph?
SUPPORTING INFORMATION 2
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Cloning humans won’t cause many people to
turn to cloning when other methods of
reproduction would enable them to have
healthy children.
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Infertile couples don’t have to rely on sperm,
egg or embryo from anonymous donors;
instead, they might choose to clone one of the
partners.
SUPPORTING INFORMATION 3
A couple at high risk of having offspring with a
genetic disease is faced with selecting a way to
have a child.
 If cloning were available, some couples in line
with prevailing concepts of kinship might clone
one of themselves or another family members.
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SUPPORTING INFORMATION 4
Through gene therapy, the child wouldn’t have
been born healthy but been made healthy after
birth.
 If the child’s disease was not genetic, a couple
might prefer to clone the affected child to be
sure that the tissue would match.
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Is it unethical that we clone another
child to cure affected one?
DISCUSSION
Do you agree with human cloning? Why or not?
 Nowadays, selling own or others’ organs is
illegal. Cloning must be incredibly expensive.
So if we clone organs as medical therapy to
cure a terminally-ill patient, do we constitute a
crime?
 Give some examples of the challenge of
regulation or ethics that human cloning brings.
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SCIENTISTS CREATE SYNTHETIC ORGANISM
By Robert Lee Hotz
The Wall Street Journal
May 21.2010
VOCABULARY
herald (v.) 預告
 piecemeal (n.) 片、塊
 menagerie (n.) 野生動物、動物園
 craft (v.) 精巧製作
 anew (adv.) 再一次
 nagging (adj.) 嘮叨的
 play down 貶低
 strain (n.) 種、品系
 algae (n.) 水藻、海藻
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VOCABULARY
patent (n.) 專利
 moratorium (n.) 暫停、中止
 mandate (n.) 授權、命令
 theologian (n.) 神學家
 multidenominational (adj.) 多教派的
 seminary (n.) 神學院
 withstand (n.) 禁得起
 scrutiny (n.) 監督
 consortium (n.) 國際財團
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VOCABULARY
meld (v.) 合併
 culmination (n.) 巔峰、頂點
 instruction (n.) 指示
 assert (v.) 堅稱、聲稱
 interim (adj.) 暫時
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MAIN IDEA
Scientists for the first time have created a
synthetic cell, completely controlled by manmade genetic instructions.
 Synthetic biology seems to have wonderful
potential future and profits, but it also brings
some opposing arguments.
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JCVI-syn1.0
SUPPORTING INFORMATION 1
The development, may stir anew nagging
questions of ethics, law and public safety about
artificial life.
 Leery of previous moral and ethical debates
about whether it is right to manipulate life
forms.
 Environmental groups called for fully regulating
all synthetic biology experiments and products
and a global moratorium on synthetic biology.
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SUPPORTING INFORMATION 2
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Several companies are already seeking to take
advantage of the new field, called synthetic
biology to breed industrial life forms that can
secrete fuels, vaccines or other commercial
products like algae that can capture carbon
dioxide and make fuel.
DISCUSSION
If we can make new strains of bacteria, plants
or animals what problems or benefits we may
face?
 Many debates of new technology haven’t come
to a consensus. In this situation, do you think
that we should temporarily halt it or continue to
develop it?
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Thanks for your listening !