PSYC 372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Blastocyst, Cloning, Meiosis
17 May 2020
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Age of viability: can we live outside of uterus with support, 21-22 weeks (baseline) that"s really early. 1 pound at this point: (to really visualize this: that"s equal to a stick of butter, aggressive technology makes this possible (and it costs 7 figures) [ethics] if we put the baseline further back (say 16-19 weeks), cuts into abortion timeframe: risks, premature: cognitive and physical issues. Sometimes babies can be born at lesser weight and are perfectly okay. Probabilistically the baby will not be healthy: [ethics] we should probably say let the baby go but it"s hard. Embro flow [flow = my terminology] to give up a life: you have an ambionic sac that contains the plecientia and umbilical chord (created by the chorian). Part of that ambionic sac has a growth or a mass of cells called blastocyst (for humans). Note: i do not know where exactly this step lies.
