Readings
It is the joining of an animal and human hybrid. What is this called?
Chimera
What is capital?
Money (revenue, cost, funds, etc)
This is one of the most famous places in San Francisco.
What is Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz?
This is the process and practice of producing food, animals, and goods from the environment. For example, wine or dairy cows.
What is agriculture?
What are the bioethics in question for an animal-human chimera?
Disease research, drug development, but also lack of advocacy and payment for problems.
This process can be used to create an organ and grow it outside of the host body, such as a pancreas for a human transplant. What is the process?
Chimera created for organ donation
Define crowdfunding.
What is a process that is used to raise money for a project before it exists.
What is the most San Francisco/California phrase you have heard or know?
[answers may vary]
This means a group of serious diseases that make cells in the body sick.
What is cancer?
[answers may vary]
Studies and research have found that organisms inherit this from their genetics.
DNA, 23 pairs of chromosomes for humans
What is an example of an entrepeneur?
What is someone who started their own business (answers may vary).
Why is the Golden Gate Bridge called Golden Gate?
It is because the bridge crosses the Golden Gate Strait (water) and meets the ocean
This word means to begin or start a new product through advertising, or to move quickly forward.
What is launch?
Why did Angelina Jolie decide to have a mastectomy (removal of breasts)?
She has a high chance of developing breast cancer, from her genetic tests
This is a written statement that explains to a potential customer how a product (or service) solves a problem or improves his or her situation, what the specific benefits are, and why the product is different and better than what is offered by the competition.
What is a value proposition?
What is the Nike brand known for?
What is one museum or garden in Golden Gate park?
de Young Museum, Botanical Gardens, Japanese Tea Garden, California Academy of Sciences, rollerskate music rink, Dutch Windmill gardens, rose gardens, etc!
This word means a condition that makes you ill when you eat, touch, or breathe something.
What is an allergy?
In this following sentence, what part of speech is the word "patients?"
In fact, courts in the United States have decided that patients do not own their cells after they are taken from their bodies.
noun
In this reading, we learned that the importance of a business model outlines things like sources of revenue and customer interactions. What were the two examples given for a brick-and-mortar vs a innovative online streaming service?
Netflix and Blockbuster
Explain why the Ford Edsel failed as a product.
The marketed product (car) was meant to be a luxury car, and the "car of the future." However, it did not deliver and was too expensive, used too much gas, was badly made, and most importantly, did not match its consumers' needs.
Why is the Palace of Fine Arts set in Roman architecture?
It was built as an exhibition of the Pan-Pacific in 1904, and was part of the World's Fair and display of cultures.
Define what offspring are.
The children of people or young of animals
How were the HeLa cells connected to Henrietta Lacks, and what was the question of bioethics?
They were cells taken from her body, in her cervix. The cells were used for medical research, but Henrietta and her family received no financial compensation for numerous breakthroughs.