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  • Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid
  • Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
  • Identification number: 85
  • Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
  • Author/s: Ana MUÑOZ GASCÓN, Ana María MALLO LAPUERTA, Cristina ADRADA RAFAEL, Teresa AMIDO LOZANO
  • Creation / modification date: 01-03-2014
  • Term: eugenics
  • Gramatical category: s
  • Definition: Science which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population, with the deal of getting a fine and healthy race.
  • Context: The latest person to take up the cause of the once-discredited movement of eugenics is Nathaniel Comfort [...] “The eugenic impulse drives us to eliminate disease, to live longer and healthier, [...] He claims, provocatively, that eugenics is an irrevocable impulse to improve our selves [...]
  • Expression: The science of eugenics. Eugenically superior.
  • Notes: Study of human improvement by genetic means. The first thorough exposition of eugenics was made by Francis Galton, who proposed that a system of arranged marriages between men of distinction and women of wealth would eventually produce a gifted race. The
  • Weighting mark: nor
  • Remission: abrform, ER Fuente: UniProt Consortium (2013). „Cellular component Endoplasmic reticulum“. Recuperado el 24 de abril de 2013 de: http://www.uniprot.org/locations/SL-0095 W. DAVIDSON, Michael, The Florida State University (2004). „The Endoplasmic Reticulum“. Recuperado el 24 de abril de 2013 de: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/cells/endoplasmicreticulum/endoplasmicreticulum.html NAVE, R. (2001). „Endoplasmic Reticulum.“ Hyperphysics, Georgia State University. Recuperado el 29 de abril de 2013 de: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/biology/endret.html
  • Sources:
    • Term: EMERY, A. E. H. (2009). Elementos de genética médica. Barcelona. Elsevier.
    • Definition: EMERY, A. E. H. (2009). Elementos de genética médica. Barcelona. Elsevier.
    • Context: SOUTULLO, Daniel. “Actualidad de la eugenesia: las intervenciones en la línea germinal”. Conferencia pronunciada en el Instituto de Biotecnología de la Universidad de Granada el 11 de mayo de 2000. Disponible en: http://www.ugr.es/~eiane
    • Expression: GONZÁLEZ SALVAT, R. M. e I. GONZÁLEZ LABRADOR. “Eugenesia y diagnóstico prenatal”. En Revista Cubana de Obstetricia y Ginecología, v.28 n.2 Ciudad de la Habana Mayo-ago. 2002 (ISSN 1561-3062). Disponible en línea http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?p
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