Manipulating Biology: Costs, Benefits and Controversies

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 18.05.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Objectives
  2. Background Content Knowledge
  3. Possible Solutions
  4. Strategies
  5. Activities
  6. Appendix 1: Annotated District Standards
  7. Next Generation Science Standards
  8. Annotated Bibliography
  9. Endnotes

Endangered Species, De-Extinction and MANipulation

Valerie J. Schwarz

Published September 2018

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Endnotes

  1. "Amanda O'Donoughue: Gorillas Aren't Child-killers, but That Child Was in Danger." Dallas News. June 01, 2016. Accessed July 22, 2018. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2016/06/01/amanda-odonoughue-gorillas-arent-child-killers-but-that-child-was-in-danger
  2. Vitousek, P. M., "Human Domination of Earths Ecosystems." Science, 499.
  3. Barnosky, Anthony D., Nicholas Matzke, Susumu Tomiya, Guinevere O. U. Wogan, Brian Swartz, Tiago B. Quental, Charles Marshall, Jenny L. Mcguire, Emily L. Lindsey, Kaitlin C. Maguire, Ben Mersey, and Elizabeth A. Ferrer. "Has the Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction Already Arrived?" Nature Accessed May 27, 2018. https://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/barnosky/Barnosky%20et%20al%20Sixth%20Extinction%20Nature.pdf
  4. Emily Monosson, Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene 126.
  5. Barnosky, Anthony D., Nicholas Matzke, Susumu Tomiya, Guinevere O. U. Wogan, Brian Swartz, Tiago B. Quental, Charles Marshall, Jenny L. Mcguire, Emily L. Lindsey, Kaitlin C. Maguire, Ben Mersey, and Elizabeth A. Ferrer. "Has the Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction Already Arrived?" Nature Accessed May 27, 2018. https://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/barnosky/Barnosky%20et%20al%20Sixth%20Extinction%20Nature.pdf
  6. Vitousek, P. M., "Human Domination of Earths Ecosystems." Science, 495.
  7. IBID, 499.
  8. Emily Monosson, Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene 126.
  9. Zachos, Elena. "How This Whale Got Nearly 20 Pounds of Plastic in Its Stomach." (National Geographic. June 04, 2018), https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/whale-dead-plastic-bags-thailand-animals/(accessed August 15, 2018).
  10. Vitousek, P. M., "Human Domination of Earths Ecosystems." Science, 498.
  11. Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction an Unnatural History, 198.
  12. IBID, 211-212.
  13. IBID, 198.
  14. Resnick, Brian. "Why Are Enormous, Alligator-Eating Pythons Invading Florida?" May 15, 2012. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/02/why-are-enormous-alligator-eating-pythons-invading-florida/252359/ (Accessed July 17, 2018).
  15. Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction an Unnatural History, 113.
  16. IBID, 113.
  17. Zimmer, She Has Her Mother's Laugh : The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity, 564.
  18. Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction an Unnatural History, 114.
  19. IBID, 114.
  20. IBID, 120.
  21. IBID, 113.
  22. Caldeira, Ken. Climatologist Ken Caldeira - How to Mend a Broken Climate (Discover Magazine, 2003), http://discovermagazine.com/2003/apr/breakdialogue/ (accessed July 15, 2018).
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  29. M.R. O’Connor, Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things, 53.
  30. IBID, 59.
  31. "Florida Panther Population Estimate Updated." Greater Sage-Grouse | Species Information. Accessed July 16, 2018. https://www.fws.gov/southeast/news/2017/02/florida-panther-population-estimate-updated/
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  33. Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction an Unnatural History, 3.
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  38. Angier, Natalie. "Do Gorillas Even Belong in Zoos? Harambe's Death Spurs Debate." The New York Times. June 06, 2016. Accessed July 17, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/science/gorilla-shot-harambe-zoo.html
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  40. Tudge, Colin, The Impact of the Gene: From Mendels Peas to Designer Babies, 6.
  41. National Geographic Society. "Keystone Species." National Geographic Society. October 09, 2012. Accessed July 16, 2018. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/keystone-species/
  42. http://www.pleistocenepark.ru/en/background/
  43. Church, George. "George Church: De-Extinction Is a Good Idea." Scientific American. September 01, 2013. Accessed July 15, 2018. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/george-church-de-extinction-is-a-good-idea/
  44. "Woolly Mammoth Revival." Revive & Restore. April 18, 2018. Accessed July 15, 2018. http://reviverestore.org/projects/woolly-mammoth/
  45. Doudna, Jennifer A., and Samuel H. Sternberg, A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution, 43.
  46. IBID, 84.
  47. "Ambrose Monell Cryo Collection (AMCC)." Brontotheriidae | Perissodactyl. Accessed July 16, 2018. https://research.amnh.org/amcc/objective.html.
  48. Hundreds of genes for height. Nature (London) 514, no. 7521 (October 01, 2014), (accessed July 22, 2018).
  49. Threats to native wildlife species: joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife and the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July 8, 2009, 27.
  50. Threats to native wildlife species: joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife and the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July 8, 2009, 27.
  51. Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction an Unnatural History, 215.
  52. "Why Are Mountain Gorillas Endangered?" Africa Geographic. July 04, 2017. Accessed July 24, 2018. https://africageographic.com/blog/mountain-gorillas-endangered/.

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