 JANUARY 22, 2001 TEACHER'S GUIDE: Focus Lesson: The Battle over John Ashcroft | Teacher Tip | The Writer's Craft | Words of the Week | TIME Weekly Quiz | Building Analytical Skills WEB ONLY FEATURES: TIME Capsule: The Embattled Nomination of Zoe Baird | Take A Stand Building Web Skills | Cover Analysis ARCHIVE Choose From Past Issues WORDS OF THE WEEKFeaturing words from the Princeton Review Hit Parade, a compilation of the 250 words that appear most often on the SAT. List the following words on the board: encroaching inexplicably conscious mainstay rigorous As you read "Monkey Business" on page 40, look for and underline these words. Define each word using context clues to help you. Check your definition against a dictionary. Then answer the questions below. 1. Agree or disagree: manipulating the genes of a Rhesus monkey encroaches on its rights. 2. Agree or disagree: the mechanism behind genetic diseases remains inexplicable to scientists. 3. Are animals conscious? If so, which ones? Show in your answer how you define the word "conscious." 4. Do you think it is ethical to use primates as the mainstay of research into human diseases? What are the alternatives? 5. Do we have a rigorous code of ethics to guide research in germline engineering? Explain.
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