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What’s Eugenics?

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Set of beliefs that looks to improve quality of humans

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What’s Phrenology?

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Studying shape and size of skull which determines characteristics of humans

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Who’s Francis Galton?

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An Englishman who dabbled in what he calls psychometrics and studies different characteristics in seeing what they mean about an individual

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How did Galton try to prove his intelligence?

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Made pedigree chart to show off brilliant people within his ancestry/family like having Darwin

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Root of Eugenics

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Good birth

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“Positive Eugenics”

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Roosevelt 1910-Women that are in better stock to have more kids of a certain kind-pertains to white middle/ upper class

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“Negative Eugenics”

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Discouragement of having kids of a certain category

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Grades of Feeblemindedness

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Idiot, Low, Middle, High Grade Imbecile, Moron

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Harry Laughlin

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Drafts law for state use in sterilization to prevent procreation of socially inadequate people

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Buck V Bell

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Centered around 17 y.o. girl who was raped and has child out of wedlock. Because of this, she’s seen as morally degenerate as she allowed this to happen to herself. Was not addressed as feebleminded before the rape. Set out to sterilize

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Nazis

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Appropriated Eugenics ideas in Hitler’s plans to eradicate all people he sees as inferior or don’t fit the Aryan ideal

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Post Eugenics

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Voluntary Sterilization

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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Civil Rights Activist-black womansterilized without consent

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Magrigal V Quilligan

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Federal class lawsuit involving sterilization of Latina women

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CRISPR

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tool to edit genomes

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Genomes

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instruction manual in who you are

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How it Works

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Guide RNA tells Cas9 Protein where to go and what gene to cut out

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Possible Ethical Issues

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Future offsprings of CRISPR can’t give consent or where it is being used like somatic cells or germ cells

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Rodolphe Barrangou and a team of researchers at Danisco

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Able to alter the bacteria’s resistance to an attack by a specific virus

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Cas9

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Cas9 protein is an enzyme that cuts foreign DNA

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