BIOS-115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Worst-Case Scenario Series, Slippery Slope, Liberal Eugenics
4 Nov 2018
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Eugenics: the belief and practice of improving the genetic quality of the human population. Classical eugenics: sterilization (incentive or coercion, anti-miscegenation laws, taxation of childless, financial incentive to have children. New eugenics: embryo selection, prenatal diagnosis, genetic engineering. Eugenics criticism: doubts about traits triggered by inheritance, diseases vs. traits (e. g. sickle cell, could lead to loss of genetic diversity (cid:862) lippery slope(cid:863) argu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Study guide: compare the structures of dna and rna. Be able to draw bases, sugars and number sugar carbons: describe the historical events leading to the structure solution of dna involving. What do you think should be the code of ethics in science/research: compare the characteristics of a, b and z dna, describe how dna is packaged in prokaryotic cells, explain how eukaryotic dna is packaged in cells. Nucleic acid structure: dna and rna: nucleotide bases, nucleoside and nucleotides, dna vs. rna, dna base pairing.
