Overall Topic: "On Problems of Tomorrow - Genetic Engineering"

  • Tasks:
     
    1. What are the author's main reasons for his rather sceptical attitude towards cloning?
    2. Describe in your own words what "human personality" means according to Ian Wilmut.
    3. Analyse the way the author argues in his text and comment on the question whether he does it in a convincing way or not.
    4. The author mentions several situations in which cloning people might at first sight seem to be a reasonable idea. What reasons in favour of cloning people do you find most valid?

     
  • Text our class test was based on:
    "Dolly's False Legacy" by Ian Wilmut, TIME Magazine (January 11, 1999)
     
  • Examples from our course:
     
    1. Ernesto
    2. Martin
    3. Hendrik