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Genetic Engineering Research Project: Topics

(Each student will receive one of the following topics on an index card)

 

  1. Cloning Animals

Required Information Points to Address:

    1. How cloning animals works

    2. The controversy surrounding cloning

    3. Some benefits of cloning

    4. Some examples of cloning in the current news

 

  1. Stem Cell Research

Required Information Points to Address:

    1. What a stem cell is

    2. What stem cells be used for

    3. The controversy surrounding stem cell research

    4. Some examples of stem cell research in the current news

 

  1. Gene Therapy

Required Information Points to Address:

    1. What gene therapy is and its useful applications

    2. How gene therapy works

    3. The current status of gene therapy (recent developments in the field)

    4. Problems and ethical concerns with gene therapy

    5. Some examples of gene therapy in the current news

 

  1. Human Genome Project (HGP)

Required Information Points to Address:

    1. What the human genome project is

    2. The background (timeline, history) of the HGP

    3. The uses and benefits of the HGP research

    4. The ethical and legal issues associated with the HGP

 

  1. Environmental biotechnology (EB)

Required Information Points to Address:

    1. What environmental biotechnology is

    2. Some examples of EB

    3. Benefits that EB can provide

    4. Some risks to EB

    5. Some examples of EB in the current events

 


 

  1. Genetically modified (or genetically engineered or bioengineered or transgenic) crops

Required Information Points to Address:

    1. What a GM crop is

    2. How GM crops are made

    3. The controversy surrounding GM foods

    4. The benefits and dangers of GM foods

    5. Some examples of GM foods in the current news

 

  1. Forensic Science Technology

Required Information Points to Address:

    1. Some of the things that forensic scientists do

    2. Some of the technologies used (esp. the ones relating to genetic engineering)

    3. What the CSI effect is

    4. Some real examples of forensic science being put to use in the current events

 

  1. Artificial Selection (or selective breeding)

Required Information Points to Address:

    1. What artificial selection is

    2. The history of artificial selection?

    3. Some examples of artificial selection?

    4. The difference between artificial and natural selection?

 

  1. Transgenic organism or genetically modified organism

Required Information Points to Address:

    1. What a transgenic organism is

    2. How transgenic organisms are produced

    3. The benefits and dangers of transgenic organisms

    4. Some examples of transgenic organisms in the current news

 

  1. Synthetic Human insulin production

Required Information Points to Address:

    1. What insulin is

    2. Where insulin naturally comes from

    3. What synthetic insulin is and why humans would need it

    4. How synthetic insulin is produced

 

 

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