Vocabulary
Academic Word List
- achievement
- benefit
- consequences
- controversy
- creating
- culture
- debate
- despite
- eventually
- evolve
- identical
- implemented
- instance
- involves
- legal
- media
- medical
- persisted
- potential
- previously
- procedure
- rejecting
- significant
- source
- technique
- theoretical
- unethical
- unique
- validity
Other Vocabulary
- amphibians
- block-buster
- breakthroughs
- clone
- disastrous
- donor
- embryos
- era
- fame
- harvested
- mammals
- marrow
- replica
- reproductive
- surgery
- therapeutic
- transplants
Exercise
Pre-Reading
Use the questions to begin a discussion. Try to be sure everyone in your group gives their opinion and explains why they hold that opinion before moving on to the next question.
- Would you be willing to have one of your organs transplanted or replaced if you were sick and it could save your life? Would it matter to you where the new organ came from? Under what circumstances would you refuse to get a transplant and why?
- What do you know about cloning? Is your knowledge based more on fact or on entertainment media such as movies and TV shows?
Reading
Look at the first paragraph of a larger Reading, which is only an Introduction to the topic. In your group, predict what you believe the rest of the reading will be about and some of the topics that might be discussed.