Notes

"cash in the human genome"
- wanting
- as if the human genome is a possession that can be owned
- something that can be brought
- not a fundamental part of us
"trying to beat publicly funded laboratories"
- competing
- shouldn't they work together if is about humans?
- human genome affects everyone
"every cell of you body"
- affects everyone
- fundamental about us
"jaw-dropping"
- usually composed
- no emotion
- suddenly there's this shocking thing
"there were three particular moments I would like to tell you about - all of them moments of stunned silence"
- directed to the readers
- interacting with the audience to get attention
- stunned silence - impact
"ecologist"
- professional
- we tend to trust the professionals
"genetically-engineered crop plant"
- makes reference to other life forms
"scorpions make their toxin"
- danger
- common knowledge
- relate back to dangerous to make ab point about the dangers of this
paragraph 8
- simplified language
- so normal people understand
paragraph 9
- questions to consider
- makes people think and question them
"don't know, said the ecologist"
- not inspiring confidence
paragraph 11
- example of how only people feel pity
- plays with emotiongs
"golden rice"
- sounds special
- creates interest
"one of the students asked: 'Why not just splice the beta-carotene gene into the child?'"
- it's not just the scientists with these ideas
- it's the same idea but with different people
"fasten your seat belts"
- seat belts for safety
- probably won't be safe
- will shock people
"gold-green children"
- alien: people don't tend to like difference
"world war II"
- well known for Hitler's eugenics
paragraph 16
- suspenseful
- exciting then disappointed
"called Trinity"
- naming it makes it real
- personified
- Holy name
"explosion" "joyous"
- oxymoron
"Oh my God what have we done?"
- realisation
didn't" "didn't" "couldn't"
- reinforced shock
"paste it"
- like a computer
- not life

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Western Australian Certificate of Education (Our Biotech Bomb - Article) English ATAR Apunte sobre Notes, creado por Selina Koo el 09/09/2017.