Photo courtesy of The Henrietta Lacks Foundation via The New York Times.
Amazing African Genetics reveals the inimitability of black genes and is the 14th activity in the ECG Black History Month (BHM) series.Starting with:
Activity #1: The Original People
Activity #2: What Makes Black People Black
Activity #3: The Lebombo & Ishango Bones
Activity #4: Pre-Colonial Africa
Activity #5: The African Diaspora
Activity #6: Slavery in the Americas
Activity #7: The Power of the Reconstruction Era
Activity #8: More on the Black Codes and Jim Crow
Activity #9: Anti-Black Racist Propaganda
Activity #10: Blacks As Artists and Subjects
Activity #11: Culture and Music Innovators
Activity #12: Fashion Trend Setters
Activity #13: Researching Your Genealogy
This 20-Activity series provides supplemental learning for each school day of the month of February 2023. The first activity is FREE but each subsequent activity will be offered at a discount during BHM. Activities will be uploaded throughout the month of February. Come back each day for the latest activity.
The activities contain a vocabulary section to ensure students are comprehending the material, a reading section which includes much of the vocabulary and introduces students to the topic, a STEM section which requires students to scientifically think about the material and may include vocabulary, and a writing section which requires students to reflect on the material or answer the prompt using evidence or by making inferences. The Brief Student Reading:
A partial picture of page-1 of the BHM #14 activity.
On January 13, 2015, Fox News surprised a lot of people when it published the article, Whites Genetically Weaker Than Blacks, Study Finds.
However, this news came as no surprise to those who study Africa and know that Africa has the most variation of most species, both plant and animal.
Also, NBC News had previously published the article, Africans Have World's Greatest Genetic Variation, on April 30, 2009.
The truth of both headlines is exemplified in the case of Henrietta Lacks. Mrs. Lacks was a mother and wife who developed and eventually died from cervical cancer, however, before she died, doctors discovered her cells multiplied rapidly. Doctors stole her cells (took them without permission). This discovery and subsequent theft led to the creation of the polio vaccine and earned billions of dollars.
Dubbed HeLa Cells, “They have been used to test the effects of radiation and poisons, to study the human genome, to learn more about how viruses work, and played a crucial role in the development of the polio and COVID-19 vaccines,” a John Hopkins press release stated about Mrs. Lacks.
It was also found that the human Mitochondrial Eve was an African woman.
End of Brief Student Reading!
VOCABULARY:
compensated:
gene:
genetically:
Mitochondrial Eve:
restitution
variety:
variation:
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