DiSc9 – Sexual Reproduction

Start here:    http://bcscience9.com/pgs/links_u2.html

Then check out the stages of development: http://www.visembryo.com/baby/index.html

Then think about the future:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome/media/2809_q056_15.html

Questions for your blog:

  1. Give 2 main ideas about each trimester.
  2. When do you consider the baby to be alive? Why?
  3. List 10 things that could cause the baby to not thrive at any stage of development?
  4. Sex is so complicated. Why not just stick with asexual reproduction?
  5. Why would you (or not) participate in “designing” your baby?