Read the Mother Courage article and the DIY scientist articles. What major ethical error did a doctor make in the first article? How do you attribute the difference in insight between this doctor and Jill Viles?
Write your answers as a reply in the comments section
Take a looks at this video:
Can we really find anything useful about your ability to play soccer from your DNA?
Suppose all we had was your DNA. Could we tell
(A) Your eye color?
(B) Whether you would get type 2 diabetes? (In type 2 diabetes, the person makes but does not respond to insulin. It is usually associated with poor diet and lack of exercise
(C) Whether you would get sickle cell anemia?
(D) How tall your are?
(E) Whether you would get cystic fibrosis
(F) Whether you would be a good sprinter?
(Take a look at this)
(G) What your skin color is? (use information from the human skin color exercise, if you did it)
(H) Whether you would be a good chess player?
(I) What else might we able to tell?
Find an article on one of the following topics
Viruses
Stem Cells
Cloning organisms
Give a short summary of the article and include the url
As shown in the video you watched, recent experiments claim that two babies have been born that were genetically engineered to resist HIV infection. Should this or any similar genetic modifications (which can be passed from generation to generation unlike standard gene therapy such as the one used to treat the woman with the vision problems ) be allowed for humans?
Suppose all we had was your DNA. Could we tell
(A) Your eye color?
(B) Whether you would get type 2 diabetes? (In type 2 diabetes, the person makes but does not respond to insulin. It is usually associated with poor diet and lack of exercise
(C) Whether you would get sickle cell anemia?
(D) How tall your are?
(E) Whether you would get cystic fibrosis
(F) Whether you would be a good sprinter?
(Take a look at this)
(G) What your skin color is? (use information from the human skin color exercise, if you did it)
(H) Whether you would be a good chess player?
(I) What else might we able to tell?
Watch the video below (It is long but well worth it)
When you are finished, answer the following questions in a reply to this blog post
(1) Was Rosalind Franklin “Robbed”?
(2) What “rights” do scientists have to their data? Do they “own” it?
(3) What do you think of Gosling’s statement at the end of the video about who was responsible for Wilkins (and thus Watson and Crick) seeing the data?
(4) Did Rosalind Franklin “steal” Wilkins’ student (Raymond Gosling)?
(5) Do you think something like this would happen today? Have times changed?
(6) Were Watson and Crick too careless in their first model, or is this ( as some have suggested) just how science works, by trial and error? Was Franklin too cautious?
Which was your favorite activity?
List one thing you learned from that activity and 2 things that you learned from other activities (Say what the activities are. Use the name on the slide)
Read the Mother Courage article and the DIY scientist articles. What major ethical error did a doctor make in the first article? How do you attribute the difference in insight between this doctor and Jill Viles?
Write your answers as a reply in the comments section
Tell the class the following
Where you are from
What you hope to learn in this class
What you find most interesting about Genetics.
If you have taken on-line classes, what has specifically helped you learn on line. What type of activities help you most? Reading? Videos? Interactive activities? Others?
