The Hindu Editorial (A reckless experiment) – Jan 24, 2019
The saga of the Chinese scientist who created the world’s first gene-edited babies last November has forced researchers everywhere to take a hard look at the ethics of gene-editing. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (A reckless experiment) – Jan 24, 2019.
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Today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (A reckless experiment) – Jan 24, 2019
- reckless (adjective) – careless, thoughtless, incautious/heedless.
- human germline (noun) – a multicellular organism is the population of its bodily cells that are so differentiated or segregated that in the usual processes of reproduction they may pass on their genetic material to the progeny/descendant .
- fraught with (adjective) – full of, filled with.
- saga (noun) – chain/series of events.
- outrage (noun) – fury, anger/wrath, indignation/resentment.
- mutation (noun) – a significant and basic “alteration” in the DNA sequence.
- boundless (adjective) – unbounded, unlimited, immeasurable.
- myeloma (noun) – it is also known as multiple myeloma, is a blood cancer arising from plasma cells.
- Crispr-Cas9 (noun) – a genome editing tool.
- flaw (noun) – defect, fault, imperfection.
- embryo (noun) – an early stage of development of unborn child. it develops from a single cell (called zygote) resulting from the fertilization of the female egg cell by the male sperm cell.
- inherit (verb) – assume, take over.
- consensus (noun) – agreement, concurrence.
- fiddling (adjective) – trivial, insignificant, unimportant.
- pitfall (noun) – danger, risk, problem.
- unintended (adjective) – careless, injudicious, ill-advised.
- mosaicism (noun) – a condition in which different cells in the same person have different numbers or arrangements of chromosomes. A person will have 2 or more genetically different sets of cells in his or her body.
- fool-proof (adjective) – infallible unfailing/unerring, effective.
- weighty (adjective) – critical, crucial, serious.
- far from (phrase) – not, not at all, nowhere near.
- phenotype (noun) – the observable physical properties of an organism.
- trait (noun) – characteristic, attribute, feature.
- immunise (verb) – inject, vaccinate, protect from.
- tinker with (verb) – try to improve, play around with, try to mend.
- susceptible (adjective) – vulnerable to, defenceless against, liable to.
- West Nile fever (noun) – Mosquito-borne viral fever. It is most commonly spread to people by the bite of an infected mosquito.
- trade-off (noun) – a situation in which you must choose between or balance two things that are opposite or cannot be had at the same time; a compromise; swap, exchange.
- abundant (adjective) – numerous, infinite, huge.
- defensible (adjective) – justifiable, sustainable, supportable.
- advisory (noun) – official communication, press release, bulletin/message.
- Crispr revolution (noun) – a genome editing revolution; CRISPR (clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeats).
- awry (adjective) – away from the intended or usual way; wrong, amiss.
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