Guide Questions for the Film Analysis

Gattaca 1. What was the movie about? 2. Were the technologies being depicted in the movie new? If not, what do you think were done in the past uses these technologies? 3. In the movie, what POSITIVE OUTCOME can you cite in the use of the said technologies? 4. In the movie, what NEGATIVE OUTCOMES, if any, have resulted in the use of the said technologies? 5. Which part of the presentation struck you the most? Why? 6. What is your stand about GENETIC MODIFICATIONS?

My Sisters Keeper Activity No. ___________ Nucleic Acids

1. Only People who have trouble making babies actually plan for them I, on the other, am not a coincidence I was engineered. Born for a particular reason. A scientist hooked up my mothers egg and my fathers sperm To make a specific combination of genes. He did it to save my sisters life. Ana Fitzgerald, My Sisters Keeper

If you had a leukemic daughter and the only way to cure her is to genetically engineer a new baby to become the future donor to your sick daughter ,would you do the same thing as what the Fitzgeralds in the movie had done in order for you to save beloved daughter? Write at least 150 words 2. How far do you agree or disagree with the genetic engineering of new born babies for them to become future donors of sick people Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant example from your own knowledge or experience Write at least 250 words 3. What is Leukemia? How does it affect our genes and our offspring? How is it passed on from offspring to offspring? Write at least 150 words Cybril_16 Sufdemin.