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What do people, individually and collectively, think of genetics?

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An innovative blend of fact and fiction, drama and documentary, Routes is a groundbreaking exploration of genetics and bioethics that uses a variety of platforms to engage a young audience. 30/01/09

In his anniversary year, next March Charles Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection will spring into life for secondary pupils as schools across the UK take advantage of a new set of classroom experiments to demonstrate the principles behind evolution and genetics. 10/12/08

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'Inside DNA' - the UK's first national touring exhibition dedicated to developments in genomics research and their wider impact - was supported by a £1.5 million Wellcome Trust Capital Award. It will tour for five years, aiming to reach around one million people across the country. 03/02/09
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A report on 'Ethics of Cloning' – the first Biomedical Ethics Film Festival, held in November 2005. 21/02/06

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"We share 51 per cent of our genes with yeast and 98 per cent with chimpanzees - it is not genetics that makes us human." Tom Shakespeare
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