NATS 1775 Lecture 13: Lecture 13 voice 30.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1775
• Professor: Vera Pavri

Document Summary

3 particular case studies: ways to find structure of dna, beginning of human genome project, scientific movement that was popularized in early 20th century in north america and other parts of the world a scientific movement called eugenics. Ethics and morals and credibility, how information is obtained and the fairness about how information is obtained. Scientists after world war 2 were trying to figure out what dna look like. Dna was a key in discovering the meaning of life. In ww2, many scientists were interested in unlocking questions of mean of life itself. The idea of trying to find the structure of dna became an important area of research for scientists all across the world following the second world war. Scientists were competing with each other to try to find the structure of dna because they would be rewarded. Their names will be in history books and will be awarded scientific prizes.