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Genetics |
“I am the riddle of life, know me and you will know yourself!”
This three video set Includes:
The Power of Genes
• Explains why the “age of genetics” is just around the corner.
• Explains just what genes are, how scientists read the genetic code, and how our new found knowledge about genes is redefining our concept of mortality.
• Features case histories that show how genetics have revolutionize criminal investigations, and how genes affect behavior. * * Looks at the clones who already walk among us – twins.
• Grades 6-12. (52:00)
Genetics
• Provides an intriguing overview of the science of genetics
• Shows how the study of flies lead to the discovery of “master architect”
• The genes that determine the form and function of body parts of nearly every living thing
• The similarities between genes in fruit flies and the same genes in humans, and how these genes may help us treat memory diseases such as Alzheimer’s
• Examines studies of twins separated at birth that hope to uncover the role of genetics in personality and physical make-up
• Explores the age old question of “nature versus nurture”
• MIT researcher Joe Davis makes sense of the shape and the message of DNA
• Computer animations
The Clone Age
“If you had a clone, how much like you would it be?”
• Wrestles with the ethics of the science of cloning
• Presents a view of the wonders cloning could bring balanced with the fears of those who believe science could go too far
*Interviews with reproductive biologists and geneticists as well as philosophers, psychologists, and science fiction writers provides a fair, well-rounded debate
• Traces the history of cloning technology and cloning in popular fiction
• Looks at the unveiling of Dolly and the political and theological fall-out
• Cloning as a cure for many life-threatening diseases and the possibility of resurrecting
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