SOCI 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, Genetic Sexual Attraction, Artificial Insemination
Chapter 6
Key Terms
o Nuclear Family
o Typically refers to a family structure of a couple (often married male-female)
with children
o Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs)
o Broad range of techniques to help with fertility issues including artificial
insemination, in vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI),
gamete intrafallopian transfers (GIFT)
o Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)
o Use of ARTs and embryonic screening to select for or against certain genetically
linked traits such as biological sex and heritable disorders
o Aka preimplantation genetic screening
o Gestational carrier
o Woman who carries a pregnancy with a fetus in which the oocyte and sperm
both came from other people
o Gestational surrogate
o International adoption
o Adopting an infant from another country typically one with a developing
economy
o Open adoption
o Adoption where the biological parent or parents remain in contact with the
adoptive family
o Genetic sexual attraction (GSA)
o Hypothesized but unsupported attraction between biological siblings who did
not grow up together
o Westemarck effect
o Well established finding across species that siblings who grow up together are
less likely to feel attracted to one another sexually
o Trimesters
o Common and somewhat arbitrary division of pregnancy into three periods of 12
weeks
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