新视野大学英语第三册第八单元.pptVIP

Legal and Moral Implications of Cloning I. Objectives II. Preview III. Leading-in IV. Section A-Text V. Answers to Exercises VI. Extensive Tasks VII. Testing Yourself VIII. Homework Objectives Students would: 1. be able to successfully finish listening, speaking, reading and writing tasks related to the theme – Cloning: the Pandora’s box? – with the help of theme vocabulary. 2. improve the accuracy of their spoken and written output, thanks to theme words and expressions. 3. improve the fluency of their spoken output during the completion of the chains of tasks. 4. understand basic knowledge of cloning. Cloned Animals What animals do you know have been cloned so far? Dolly Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from adult DNA, was put down by lethal injection Feb. 14, 2003. Prior to her death, Dolly had been suffering from lung cancer and crippling arthritis. Although most Finn Dorset sheep live to be 11 to 12 years of age, postmortem examination of Dolly seemed to indicate that, other than her cancer and arthritis, she appeared to be quite normal. Idaho Gem The worlds first cloned mule, was born on May 4. He is an identical genetic copy of his brother, a champion racing mule called Taz, and the first clone to be born in the equine family. Cc The worlds first cloned kitten, named Cc. It was created by scientists in Texas using a cell taken from an adult tortoiseshell female (see next picture). The photo, taken on December 22 2001 when the kitten was seven weeks old, was made public in February 2002. Noel, Angel, Star, Joy, Mary Five cloned piglets, born in Virginia, USA on March 5 2000. The worlds first cloned piglets were produced by PPL Therapeutics from an adult sow using a slightly different technique from the one that produced Dolly. Cloned Calves A pair of new-born cloned calves in a cowshed in Ishikawa Japan, on July 5 1998. They were born exactly two years after Dolly, the British sheep that made history by becoming the first clone of an adult