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Biotechnology  Yr 13

These research suggestions and websites might help you with your research.

Subject headings, keywords
Biotechnology, cloning, genetic engineering, infertility, nanotechnology, heart surgery, DNA, gene profiling, genetic screening, stem cell, xeno-transplantation, ethics

Dewey Numbers
570-572.87,  612, 030 REF

  Reference:
Encyclopaedias: World Book, Britannica, World book encyclopaedia of science, The world of science

 Information File:  Genetics, genetic engineering, medicine, health
On-line databases and websites:
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'

 Scroll down to "Opposing viewpoints"  These are essays on a wide range of topics, offering opposing ethical points of view, e.g. to genetically engineer food or not.

Websites:
http://www.biozone.co.nz/links.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/biotechnology
http://www.maf.govt.nz/mafnet/schools/activities/gmfbio.htm (type keywords in search box)
www.library.christchurch.org.nz/
(type keywords in search box)
http://highschoolbiology.otago.ac.nz/biotech.html
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=25794   (stem cell research)
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=25787
 (stem cell)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?
(type keywords in search box)cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11021241&dopt=AbstractPlus
(Problems and perspectives for clinical organ xenotransplantation)
http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/bi/1992/gen_screen1.html
  (genetic screening/ethics)
www.askjeeves.com   (type keywords in search box)
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/432418-overview (xenotransplantation)