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Unit 8 - Environmental and medical issues
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- 1artificial inseminationinjecting semen into the uterus by artificial means
- 2conservationprotecting and preserving natural resources and the environment
- 3creationthe act of creating the universe or the universe which has been created
- 4embryoa fertilised egg in the first eight weeks after conception
- 5environmentthe surroundings in which plants and animals live and on which they depend to live
- 6global warmingthe increase in the temperature of the earth's atmosphere (thought to be caused by the greenhouse effect)
- 7infertilitynot being able to have children
- 8in-vitro fertilisationthe method of fertilising a human egg in a test tube
- 9natural resourcesnaturally occurring materials, such as oil and fertile land, which can be used by humans
- 10organ donationgiving organs to be used in transplant surgery
- 11stewardshiplooking after something so that it can be passed on to the next generation
- 12surrogacyan arrangement whereby a woman bears a child on behalf of another woman or where an egg is donated and fertilised by the husband through IVF and then implanted into the wife's uterus
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