Thursday, September 17, 2009

ENG 1020- RJA #5a: Finding Reference Articles

Searched at: www.ScienceDirect.com
Search strategies: Advanced search “AND”
Date of search: September, 17th 2009.
Keyword used; Number of hits; Relevance (1-5 Scale):
a) Animal Cloning; 125,817 hits; 3.
b) Animal Cloning AND Ethics; 3,614 hits; 4.
c) Animal Rights; 566,129 hits; 2
d) Animal Rights AND Cloning; 51,303; 3
e) Animal Cloning AND Advantages; 27,176; 4
Online Reference work:
a)Bioethics: limits to the interference with life
Date: September 17th, 2009
b)Therapeutic cloning- applications for organ transplantation
Date: September 17th, 2009
c)Application of reproductive biotechnology in animals- implications and potentials: Applications of reproductive cloning
Date: September 17th, 2009
d)Cloning:next term New breakthroughs leading to commercial opportunities

I found information regarding the advantages of animal cloning as well as of the ethics of cloning. On the web sites that I have selected, there is some information on the uses of different types of cloning, on future possibilities if we continue the practice, and on Bioethics science.

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