Core Module 2

You and Your Genes

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1. Introduction and Huntingdon's Disease
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Beginner's Guide to Genetic engineering
Huntington's Disease Association

Huntington's Chorea
Introduction to Genetics

2. Predicting Inheritance
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Arguments for and against testing for Huntington's disease

3. Predicting Inheritance continued
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4. Decision making - cystic fibrosis
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Cystic Fibrosis

5. Role plays
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Websites to visit Public attitudes to human genetic information

6. Selecting genes
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Genetic modification - Scottish Agricultural College
Genetic selection in dogs
Genetic selection for a cure

Ethics of genetic selection - BBC

7. Genetic screening and treatments
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Genetic screening Patient Factsheet

8. Choosing gender
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Websites to visit Inheritance of gender

9. Ethics and decision-making
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Websites to visit The ethics of genetics Guardian Report

10.
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Websites to visit Inside Out, DNA the Recipe of Life

11. Asexual reproduction - cloning
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Cloning plants
Cloning animals
Cloned animals (Guardian website)
Click and Clone