Question

Eixo: Natureza e sociedade.

Where did you get your brains?

“we could produce remarkable children,” a beautiful actress once cooed to the cerebral Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. “Ah yes,” he replied, quick as a fast, “but what if they had my looks and your brains?

A simple joke about vanity and the vagaries of sexual reproduction, perhaps. But Shaw’s quip may be more apt than he could ever have guessed. Pioneering work on mice suggests that a mother’s genes play the dominant role in the development of the parts of her offspring’s brains that are responsible for intelligence. The father’s genes, on the other hand, may shape not his offspring’s looks so much as the parts of their brains that influence emotional make-up. What’s true for mother mice might also be true for human mothers. But the two species are different in some obvious and not so obvious ways.

Tempting as it might be, it’s still a tad early for women to start celebrating a genetic monopoly on the intellectual well-being of the human species.

                                                                  (From new scientist, May 3, 1997.)






Atividade:

*Responda as questões em português.

1. Qual é o titulo do texto? 


2. Onde Bernard Shaw nasceu?


3. O que a atriz quis dizer com a seguinte frase: we could produce remarkable children.


4. De acordo com o texto, cite o monopólio genético sobre as mulheres.

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Answer 1

Resposta:

1. Onde vocês pegaram seus cérebros?

2. Irlanda

3. Poderiam produzir crianças magníficas, caso os dois tivessem relações sexuais com o intuito de reprodução.

4. O monopólio é citado pois no texto é dito que parte do cérebro dos ratos é 'herdado' pela mãe, enquanto pelo pai de trata-se mais da parte física.

Explicação:

Favor tomar cuidado com a categoria da pergunta, está na errada.