A Brave New World

1. Genetic Engineering- the group of applied techniques of genetics and biotechnology used to split and join together genetic material and especially DNA from one or more species of organism and to introduce the result into an organism in order to change one or more of its characteristics

2. Surrogate Mothers- a woman who carries a fertilized egg for a woman who is unable to become pregnant. It is done by means of artificial semination or surgical implantation.

3. Henry Ford- Man who created the assembly line for cars

b) the Model-T- Assembly line cars created by Ford.

c) Assembly Line production- To build something by having one person do a specific thing for each product, and then moving down the line till it is finished.

4. Stalin-The Czar of Communistic Russia during World War 2.

5. Behavior Modification- psychotherapy that is concerned with the treatment (as by desensitization or aversion therapy) of observable behaviors rather than underlying psychological processes and that applies principles of learning to substitute desirable responses for undesirable ones.

6. Cloning- The act of growing a plant or animal from the cells of a parent plant or animal so that it is identical to the parent.

7. B.F. Skinner- a writer who had a theory that once you learn that something causes something else, you will learn whether or not to do it.

8. Satire- a type of clever, mocking humor that points out the faults in certain people or ideas.

9. Thomas R. Malthus- wrote a perfectibility of society thesis which is followed in the book. His thesis was published as essay on population. He lived from 1766-1834.

10. Lenin-was a Russian revolutionary hero, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Soviet Union, and the primary theorist of Leninism, a variant of Marxism.

11. Trotsky- Russian Communist revolutionary, one of the principal