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    -168567733712900Name _ _ Period _ AP Biology Date _ THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS Below are about 309 questions based on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. You will read the book and answer 100 of the questions given. Here are a few guidelines: You must answer at least one question from each chapter. (there are 40 chapters) You may answer no more than 5 questions from any one chapter. Your answers must be handwritten. (questions may be typed) Please

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    In the book The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks written by Rebecca Skloot‚ she explains that Henrietta was a remarkable individual who is an icon for science. Henrietta Lacks was a person whom everyone enjoyed to be around but she was covered with tumors that were cancerous. Henrietta Lacks was a woman with five children‚ a husband‚ living in Baltimore where she went to John Hopkins Hospital. Hopkins hospital was a facility where the blacks‚ people who could not afford health insurance could go

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    3) In the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks‚ Rebecca Skloot is searching for the identity of Henrietta Lacks. In the movie Antwone Fisher Antwone is in turn seeking his own identity. Discuss some of the parallels‚ similarities or differences between the book and movie. The book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and the movie Antwone Fisher are similar in a lot of different ways. One similar thing they had in common was both Henrietta and Antwone did not live with their biological parents

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    Henrietta had originally gone to the doctor because she had a lump in her cervix and she decided that it was time for her to get it checked out‚ the doctors had found out that it was cancerous and she had to go through multiple treatments. According to Skloot (2011)‚ one of the doctors was Richard Telinde and he had taken a sample of her tumor from her cervix and put it in a petri dish‚ without her knowing and took it to the lab to grow human cells for experimentation.

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    Inequalities of Race In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks‚ race is one of the main themes as Skloot tells her story about Henrietta. When Henrietta goes to the doctor to discover some pain that she has and how the doctors took samples out of her without her consent. Since she is African American‚ the doctors assume that she is uneducated and do not tell her what is wrong with her body. Henrietta was not the only one though‚ in the 1950’s doctors attempted various procedures on African Americans

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    text] [Type text] [Type text] 1 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks In the 1950s doctors didn’t have to ask for consent and the patients just did what their doctors told them to do no questions asked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot tells a true story about a 31 year old African American woman that had her cells taken by doctors without her consent and didn’t get recognized for the contribution her cells made until later on when her family found out what the doctors had done

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    appointed Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues will get that conversation going. Meanwhile‚ the saga of Henrietta Lacks tells us that without genuine health care reform‚ her scientific legacy will forever overshadow her human one. Skloot writes this mostly from a second source. She got most of her information from Henrietta’s daughter‚ Deborah.

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    Henrietta Lacks was born on August 1‚ 1920‚ in Roanoke‚ Virginia. Lacks died of cervical cancer on October 4‚ 1951‚ at age 31. Cells taken from her body without her knowledge were used to form the HeLa cell line. Lacks’s case has sparked legal and ethical debates over the rights of an individual to his or her genetic material and tissue. Life and Death Henrietta Lacks was born as Loretta Pleasant. At some point in time‚ she changed her name to Henrietta. After her mother died in 1924‚ she was

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    Maintaining Dynamic Homeostasis A group of scientists in the AP Biology Development Committee have used their knowledge‚ discovered‚ and written down new AP Biology Principles that explains and guides you through biologically systems and how living things function. One principle states: Organisms use feedback mechanisms to regulate growth and reproduction‚ and to maintain dynamic homeostasis. In order to understand this biology principle‚ you must understand the operation of the feedback system

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    I do not think that the Lacks family understood what had been done with Henrietta’s cells. When Skloot spoke with Deborah for the first time‚ Deborah talked about how she did not know anything about her mother. If she did not even know who her mother was‚ then how is she supposed to know what the HeLa cells are and where they are? Deborah told Skloot that she “wanted to learn more about her mother and what her cells had done for science” (53). Obviously‚ she does not really

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