Human Reproductive Technology Timeline
More couples than ever require some sort of assistance from reproductive technologies in order to have a child. Your task is to use library resources and the Internet to research key developments in human reproductive technology and discuss how/why these developments have been so important in the development of reproductive technology.
Subject headings, keywords
Mendel genes inheritance test-tube baby cloning ultrasound genetic screening genetic engineering DNA gene profiling human genome infertility in-vitro fertilisation or IVF biotechnology
Dewey Numbers
572.8, 572.86, 576.5, 612, 660.65,
Reference:
science encyclopaedias, World book encyclopaedia, and Britannica
Information file
Genetics, cloning
On-line databases
Britannica Online http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/
login on the left side of the page under the EPIC heading
login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs.
Scroll down to blue highlighted links - 'Britannica online school edition K-12'
or the 'Discovering Collection' (also biographies and science plus more)
Choose either Primary, Secondary or High School levels or 'search all levels'
Websites
http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/ (centre for genetics - type in the search box 'genetic screening)
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/mendel/story.asp (Mendel's story)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel Mendel
http://www.imaginis.com/ultrasound/ ultrasound
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering
http://genomics.energy.gov/ human genome project
http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/SUA09/clone297.php sheep cloning
http://history1900s.about.com/od/medicaladvancesissues/a/testtubebaby.htm test tube baby
http://www.accessexcellence.org/ (type in history of genetic engineering in the search box
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/kahales/geneticslinks.html links to related subjects on genetics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-vitro_fertilization IVF
http://health.howstuffworks.com/fertility-channel.htm scroll down for different articles
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/medicine/genetest.shtml (gene testing)