Monday, November 7, 2011

Q2, Week 4 Vocabulary Definitions & Cloze Reading

context: the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage

equate: to regard, treat, or represent as equivalent

evaluate: to judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality of

Cloning became a hot topic when Dolly the Sheep was cloned from an identical sheep in 1997. Cloning basically evaluate to creating a genetic twin. There is no evidence that human cloning has occurred yet, but it is believed that scientists have the ability to do so. Most countries have evaluate the pros and cons of human cloning and limited or outlawed it. If you look at this in a different , there are human clones among us right now. They are identical twins, created naturally, not in a lab Context
Supporters of human cloning say that it could help couples who are struggling with conceiving a baby. More importantly, many people say that human cloning could be used to save lives by cloning a diseased liver or heart or to replace a body part like an arm. In this Context human cloning may not be such a bad thing.

Opponents of human cloning say that people are “playing God” and this Equation that with going against many people’s religious beliefs. Some people fear that scientists could create “superhumans” that would be bred as super-soldiers or super-athletes which would make it impossible for non-cloned humans to compete with them.

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