Biotechnology-2
1. How are retroviruses used for human genetic transformation?
2. What is SCID and how is it treated through gene therapy?
3. What do you think about cosmetic gene therapy and designer babies?
4. How is DNA sequenced using the dideoxynucleotide method?
5. What are the goals and accomplishments of the human genome project?
6. What are SNPs?
7. What is the commoditization of science?
8. What are the ethics involved in the human genome project?
9. Is it possible for scientists to be ethically indifferent when it comes to the human
genome project?
10. What is ethical reasoning?
11. Are alleles necessarily good or bad?
12. What is balanced polymorphism?
13. What is pleiotropy?
14. What do monogenic and polygenic mean?
15. What is epigenetics?
16. What do the studies with the agouti mice, survivors of the Dutch hunger winter
and abused children tell us about the relationship between the environment and
genes?