Unit 7 Exam Prep Revision Notes
Q1
Environmental impacts of stem cells:
- could serve as a model to evaluate the physiological effects of environmental
pollutants efficiently
- Cost effectively
- Could be contaminated by environmental factors such as viruses and bacteria
Social impacts of stem cells:
- Provide new and more effective treatments
- People getting stem cell therapy but its unproven and so the patients don’t know the
risks because once stem cells are in the body you cant take them out
Economic impacts:
- Stimulating growth of the biotech sector
- Generating tax revenue
- stem cell therapy really expensive
Ethical impacts:
- What is right and wrong different people will have different views
- stem cell should not be used for research or other purposes because it directly
influences the life which is going to develop from a stem cell stem cell use has an
ethically positive effect as it treats the number of inherited diseases and everyone
has the right to get a child of gender which they want
- Involves the destruction of human embryos which is why religious people are against
it
Good words/phrases for question 1
moreover, furthermore, however, on the other hand, in contrast, in comparison, in some
ways, if we consider
Discuss weather the articles are newspaper extracts, magazine extracts, case studies,
journals etc.
There are several/many a few implications/issues raised in the articles
Firstly there is the social impact of…
There are environmental impacts such as..
The economic issues surrounding this area are
The ethics behind the study are questionable/well considered.
Q2
Q1
Environmental impacts of stem cells:
- could serve as a model to evaluate the physiological effects of environmental
pollutants efficiently
- Cost effectively
- Could be contaminated by environmental factors such as viruses and bacteria
Social impacts of stem cells:
- Provide new and more effective treatments
- People getting stem cell therapy but its unproven and so the patients don’t know the
risks because once stem cells are in the body you cant take them out
Economic impacts:
- Stimulating growth of the biotech sector
- Generating tax revenue
- stem cell therapy really expensive
Ethical impacts:
- What is right and wrong different people will have different views
- stem cell should not be used for research or other purposes because it directly
influences the life which is going to develop from a stem cell stem cell use has an
ethically positive effect as it treats the number of inherited diseases and everyone
has the right to get a child of gender which they want
- Involves the destruction of human embryos which is why religious people are against
it
Good words/phrases for question 1
moreover, furthermore, however, on the other hand, in contrast, in comparison, in some
ways, if we consider
Discuss weather the articles are newspaper extracts, magazine extracts, case studies,
journals etc.
There are several/many a few implications/issues raised in the articles
Firstly there is the social impact of…
There are environmental impacts such as..
The economic issues surrounding this area are
The ethics behind the study are questionable/well considered.
Q2
