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Flashcards by LauraHobbit, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by LauraHobbit
over 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Fertility Treatment | Medical help that allows people to have children |
| IVF | In Vitro Fertilisation, or 'test tube babies' |
| AI | Artificial Insemination (by Husband or by Donor) |
| Surrogacy | Another woman implanted with the couple's embryo to give birth to it, then it is handed back to genetic parents. |
| Embryology | The study of (human) embryos |
| Human Genetic Engineering | Modification of gene make-up to change the features of a human |
| Embryo | Fertilised ovum at about 12-14 days old |
| Designer Babies | Babies with gender and characteristics chosen by their parents (currently illegal) |
| Quality of Life | Places value of someone's life based on the kind of life they have |
| Sanctity of Life | All life is sacred because it is God-given and it should not be destroyed |
| Savior Sibling | A brother or sister born to transplant stem cells etc. into the original child, which generally has a genetic condition or fault |
| Cloning | Creating an exact genetic copy of another being's DNA and creating a genetically identical being |
| Therapeutic Cloning | Cloning to produce embryos to gain stem cells and to research into them |
| Reproductive Cloning | Creating an identical copy of the organism as a method of reproduction, eg. Dolly the sheep |
| Human-animal hybrid embryo | An embryo made from human DNA and an animal egg for purposes of experimentation |
| Human experimentation | Testing products, usually medicines, on paid human volunteers |
| Transplant surgery | Someone else's healthy organs are put into a patient whose organ is failing |
| Blood Transfusion | Take blood from one (healthy) person and put it into another who needs it |
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