Title: Assess the effects of biotechnology (including gene therapy, patenting of living tissue, cloning).
Course: Biotechnology Foundations in Health and Medical Sciences (14252) > Section: Examining Social, Legal, and Ethical Aspects of Biotechnology

Assessment should include

- historical impacts (e.g., eugenics)
- current impacts (e.g., gene therapy, patenting DNA sequences, cloning, synthetic genomics)
- positive and negative impacts.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are the implications from cloning insulin?
- How has society benefited from biotechnology?
- How has biotechnology been affected by society?
- What is gene therapy meant to do?
- What is cloning?
- How and why are patents given to living tissue products and gene products?
- Who was Henrietta Lacks?