Ways Of Making A Baby Flashcards
Artificial insemination
Introducing semen into the uterus or oviduct by unnatural reproduction
Cloning
Taking body cells from an adult and introducing them into an unfertilised egg that has had its genetic material removed, and then encouraging embryo development
Cytoplasm
The complex of organic and inorganic substances within a cell outside of the nucleus
Cytoplasm transfer
A technique in which cytoplasm from a donor egg is drawn into a Popeyes containing a single sperm from the male partner, after which that donated cytoplasm and the sperm are injected into the patients egg
Frozen embryos
Specialists may freeze additional embryos from a women’s cycle for later use. They may also freeze embryos of a donor in order to have them ready to place in a surrogate mothers uterus at the appropriate moment in the surrogates natural or hormone-replaced cycle
Intra-Cytoplasmic sperm injection ICSI
A technique developed in 1992 to combat male in fertility in which doctors collect a single live sperm and inject it directly into the cytoplasm if the mothers egg
In vitro fertilisation
Taking eggs from a women, fertilising them in the laboratory with a mans sperm, and returning the resulting embryos to her uterus several days later
Nuclear transfer
Taking nucleus of an immature egg (one that hasn’t gone through cell division) from the future mother and places it in the enucleated (nucleus free) egg donated by a younger women
Preimplantation generic diagnosis PGD
A technique for screening embryos prior to implantation for genetic abnormalities. Only embryos free of such abnormalities are implanted
Surrogate
A surrogate mother is one who, usually by artificial insemination or by introduction of a fertilised egg (here or that of a donor or the mother who will raise the child) into her uterus, becomes pregnant and carries a baby to term for another women.
