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2. What problems (2) were found within the European human male population?
3. What are Sertoli cells? (Where are they found and what is their function)?
4. What long term effects did the male offspring of DES treated mothers present?
7. At about the same time what was happening within the European fish
populations?
8. What percentage of England’s domestic water comes from sewage laden low land
rivers?
9. What seems to be the link between accelerated growth in breast cancer tissue
cultures and plastics?
10. What is the name of this chemical? What are some of its uses?
12. How does collaboration move science forward? Give an example from this film.
13. Will environmental changes brought about by humans eventually destroy the
potential for males of all species to reproduce? Explain.
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2. What problems (2) were found within the European human male population?
Malformed sperm; low sperm counts; testicular cancer; malformed male
gentalia (Testicular non descent)
3. What are Sertoli cells? (Where are they found and what is their function)?
“Nursery cells”; they help produce sperm.
4. What long term effects did the male offspring of DES treated mothers present?
Malformed sperm; low sperm counts; testicular cancer; malformed male
gentalia (Testicular non descent)
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5. What was the source of the xenoestrogens in Lake Apopka?
Calfane pesticide
7. At about the same time what was happening within the European fish
populations?
Feminization of male fish….
8. What percentage of England’s domestic water comes from sewage laden low land
rivers?
30 %
9. What seems to be the link between accelerated growth in breast cancer tissue
cultures and plastics?
A compound in the plastic in cancer tissue culture tubes.
10. What is the name of this chemical? What are some of its uses?
Nonyl-phenol
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12. How does collaboration move science forward? Give an example from this film.
Disparate data can be compared and possibly, a common link to both data
sets can emerge – one that can explain both.
Low sperm count data and malformed wildlife are probably linked through
the effects of xenoestrogens.
13. Will environmental changes brought about by humans eventually destroy the
potential for males of all species to reproduce? Explain.
Possibly these xenoestrogens will build up to the levels that all males are
feminized to the degree that they can not reproduce.