Cells and Endangered Species

Being Endangered

• Plants or animals can become endangered
• Endangered: at risk of becoming extinct
• Extinct: no longer living

Endangered Species

• Amur Leopard Blue Whale Black Rhino Chimpanzee Cross River Gorilla Giant Panda Hector's Dolphin Hawksbill Turtle Sea Lions Snow Leopard South China Tiger Sri Lankan Elephant African Wild Dog Galápagos Penguin
• 44,838
• 16,928

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Why animals become endangered

• Habitat gets destroyed
• Pollution
• Hunted or fished
• New environment, that they aren't used to

Stem Cells

• Can change into any "job"
• Found in embryos and adult tissue
• Stem lines
• Stem lines (researchers) can change into a specielized part
• Help you fight diseases or injurings

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west and stice

• W: animal + dairy scientist
• S: RBC director
• Working on "frozen zoo"
• University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center
• San Diego Zoo (frozen zoo,rhinos)

Frozen Zoo

• Collect skin cells
• Put into tanks with liquid nitrogen
• Stem Cells: series of specialized reprogramming genes
• Turned to sperm or egg
• The put to freeze
• For all Species

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Why it will help us

• Frozen zoo in 2 containers
• Become an animal with single cell
• Could re-populate a species
• Could help us more in the future

Videos

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptgu_15sdVc
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPulEAryPO0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkTey9vkFB4

Work Cited

• https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinct...
• http://kidshealth.org/teen/cancer_center/treatment/stem_cells.html
• http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/01/us/frozen-zoo-endangered-species-georgia/inde...
• http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/stem_cell/
• http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0906938.html