Question | Answer |
GMO | Genetically Modified Organism |
Dolly the sheep | The first mammal to be cloned from another mammal |
Chakrabarty Case Justices | Thurgood Marshal, William. J. Brennan Jr.; Chief Justice Warren Burger, Byron R. White, Harry A. Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Lewis F. Powell, William H. Rehnquist. |
Moore Case Justices | Chief Justice Malcom M. Lucas,Stanley Mosk, Armand Arabian, Allen E. Broussard, Edward A. Panelli, Joyce L. Kennard, David Eagleson |
Patent | The exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years |
John Moore | The Alaskan buisness man who's cells created a multi billion dollar cell line yet he fought a legal battle against Dr. W. Golde and the regents of the University of California over the property right to his own tissues |
Plant Patent act of 1930 | The act passed by the U.S. congress which enabled the patenting of new plant varieties created by man through asexual reproduction |
National Organ Act of 1984 | Passed by the U.S. congress it outlawed the sale of human organs and created a task force to monitor organ donations |
PTO's April 7th 1987 Ruling | Extended the Chakrabarty case ruling to include all multi cellular organisms includind animals |
Plasmid | a segment of DNA independent of the chromosomes and capable of replication |
Pseudomonas Putida | Chakrabarty's genetically engineered bacteria |
Dr Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty | The scientist that developed Pseudomonas Putida and the first scientist to recieve a patent on life |
Dr David W. Golde | John Moore's doctor at the University of California who established a multi billion dollar cell line from Moore's T-lympocytes |