Health Sciences 2610F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Genetic Screen, Recombinant Dna, Genetic Testing

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Captured the public"s attention promises such extremes of benefits and harm. Worries: fear we may open a pandora"s box of unforeseen harms that we will not be able to fix later. 1907: first legalization of negative eugenics the compulsory sterilization of any confirmed criminal, idiot, rapist, or imbecile in a state institution whose condition has been determined to be unimprovable by appointed panel of physicians . 1921: sir francis galton first defined the term eugenics in relation to human beings. 1927: 65,000 unfit people were sterilized without their permission over the next 50 years. 1928: alberta became the only jurisdiction in the british empire to pass a eugenic. Sterilization law sterilized 2832 children and adults prior to 1972. Issue associated with genetic technology: cloning: recombinant dna technology: also known as dna cloning/gene cloning". Transfer of a dna fragment from one organism to a self-replicating genetic element. Dna of interest is then propagated in a foreign host cell.

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