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Every person is different.

We come in all differents shapes and sizes.

Some people are good at music or dancing. Others are good at science or math. Many of these characteristics are passed on from your parents through genes - units of information in your body. Science now knows that the human body is made up of about 30,000 genes. Each human being is made up of different combinations of these genes, and these genes are made up of DNA molecules, which contain the instructions for creating a living person. These instructions are known as genetic information.

Scientists now can clone animals like sheep, cows, pigs, cats or horses and it is technically possible to clone people, but...is it OK to do that? Human cloning is a matter of debate: some scientists feel that cloning people is an extremely helpful possibility for the human race, while many others feel that it can be very dangerous.

What do you think about the subject? Is the world ready for human cloning?

Read the two sides of the debate and then decide.

YES	NO
* Human cloning can help infertile couples,	* Most cloned animals are born with birth defects
people who, for medical reasons, can't have	and soon die. Cloning is not a perfect process,
a child that is genetically related to them.	and it is not to be tested on humans.(It tooks
	277 tries to create Dolly the sheep.)
*Human cloning research can provide a greater	* Cloning gives people the hability to choose the
understanding of why women lose their babies	characteristics of their unborn child, interfering
during pregnancy, and therefore prevent	with nature and violating the principles of
miscarriages.	right and wrong.

*A healthy cell of a sick person can be cloned	* Cloning may have a negative effect on a family
to create new healthy skin, liver, or brain tissue	when a child finds out that he or she is an exact
that can be transplanted into the sick person	copy of his or her parent.
to make him or her better.
(Source:Marques, Amadeu. Inglês - Série Brasil. Ed. Ática, 2004. Text and exercises pages 78, 79,80 )
(miscarriage - aborto espontâneo/ abortion - aborto provocado)

Encontre no texto palavras que completam as expressões abaixo, observe sua tradução:
1 - Infertile ......................................	casais inférteis
2 - Human .......................................	raça humana
3 - human........................................	corpo humano
4 - genetic.......................................	informações genéticas
5 - ........................................ person	pessoa viva
6 - negative .....................................	efeito negativo
7 - ....................................... defects	deficiências congênitas
8 - ...................................... process	processo aprimorado
9 - ...................................... cell	célula sadia
10 - brain .........................................	tecido cerebral
11 - different ..............and ................	diferentes formas e tamanhos
12 - principles of ...............and ..........	princípios de certo e errado

Veja a que se referem as palavras e separe-as nas colunas adequadas: people, child, liver, tissue, right, wrong, healthy, sheep, different, good, cow, person, skin, brain, parents, creating, dancing, cat, horses, couples, family, math, music, dangerous, debate.
partes do corpo	adjetivos	pessoas	nomes de animais	atividades humanas