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Three Parents
A new procedure which creates babies with the DNA of three people has just been given the go ahead in Britain. In this activity, students learn how it can help women with a serious inherited condition to have a healthy baby and why it is deemed so controversial. They describe how to create an embryo with three parents, explain how this technique could be used, use ethical arguments, and decide whether they would recommend it to help a couple in need.
Curriculum links include:
*Cells and organisation: the function of the mitochondria.
*Reproduction in humans: Heredity as the process by which genetic information is transmitted from one generation to the next. A simple model of chromosomes, genes and DNA in heredity
*Development of scientific thinking: explain everyday and technological applications of science; evaluate associated personal, social, economic and environmental implications; and make decisions based on the evaluation of evidence and arguments
*Inheritance, genetic diseases, how sub-cellular structures of eukaryotic cells are related to their functions, including the nucleus/genetic material, mitochondria
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