Essay Genetic Engineering: The Benefits Outweigh the Negatives

Genetic engineering is a great thing that can help our society grow in a healthier way. Genetic engineering can prevent deadly diseases in children [babies] before they are born genetic engineering can also be used on fruits and vegetables not just humans and animals.

You are probably familiar with GMO’s (genetically modified organism) and scientifically modified food that has had its DNA changes. There has been debate on GMO’s has been going on for a few decades, whether GMO are safe and even ethical. However, there is another debate that far surpasses GMOs and has a potential to radically shake society: the issue of genetically modifying humans. Changing our DNA could limit health issue or create a new Frankenstein’s monster among humans. Frankenstein had the wrong intent when he set out to create his monster. He only cared about himself and advancing his future. If Genetic engineering is sought after to just create something new there will be another monster. However, genetic can be safe and ethical if its intent and use is for medical purposes. We need to help the sick in society and one way to do that is with genetic engineering. With this purpose genetic engineering is not overstepping our authority like Frankenstein did.

Genetic engineering is a very controversial topic. People either agree with genetic modification, or they don’t. According to dictionary.com, genetic engineering is the development and application of scientific methods, procedures, and technologies that permit direct manipulation of genetic material in order to alter the hereditary traits of a cell, organism, or population. While researching this topic, I learned many interesting facts. I found out that genetic engineering first started in 1973, I did not know it had been around for so long. I learned that two men, Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen, were the first people to genetically modify an organism, which was bacteria. Yourgenome.org states that, “Genetic engineering can be applied to

It is incredible to see how far genetic engineering has come. Humans, plants, and any living organism can now be manipulated. Scientists have found ways to change humans before they are even born. They can remove, add, or alter genes in the human genome. Making things possible that humans (even thirty years ago) would have never imagined. Richard Hayes claims in SuperSize Your Child? that genetic engineering needs to have limitations. That genetic engineering should be used for medical purposes, but not for “genetic modification that could open the door to high-tech eugenic engineering” (188). There is no doubt that genetic engineering can amount to great things, but without limits it could lead the human race into a future that no one

That is a pro. Another pro is that without genetic engineering, food wouldn’t grow as fast. Food growing fast is critical to feed the world. “Ronald is a plant pathologist and geneticist-a professor at the University of California, Davis whose lab has isolated genes from rice that can resist diseases and tolerate floods. When those genes are inserted into existing rice plants they help farmers grow high-yield harvests in places where the crop is a vulnerable staple. Last year, four million subsistence farmers in seven countries fed millions of people by planting seeds that carry a gene Ronald and her collaborators isolated (Berlin, 2015).” Without genetic engineering, some of the foods people eat nowadays, wouldn’t be anything like we are used to. Some spices are not in the right habitat. They don’t have anything that eats them. What happens? Nothing, but the spices just keep growing, until they are out of control. Genetic engineering fixes that, and now there are not as many invasive species. A con is that a person wouldn’t know exactly what is in the food, so they could express symptoms (psrast.org). Some symptoms people could express would be: death, allergic reactions/breakouts, and/or become permanently disabled. People may

What if you could change your baby's eye color, height, or hair color? Genetic engineering is becoming the new trend across America. In this blog You will learn how genetic engineering was used in history, how it is used today, and how it affects everyday lives. Techniques of genetic engineering can be applied to almost anything in the aspect of human well beings. This includes food production, disposal of waste, medicines, and possibly treatments of disease.

People always look for miracles in their life. What if there is a way to miracles? Genetic engineering can create miracles, by making impossibles to possibles. From the name genetic engineering we can define that is all about genetics. Haircolor, color skin, eye color, long or short all comes from genes that are inherited from the parents. What if we can create and customize our gene to have specific traits and actions? Genetic engineering is more beneficial than risky and has a huge effect on the today’s society because it plays a major role with treating human diseases, for pharmaceuticals and genetically modified foods for people and animals.

Scientist and Genetic Engineers are able to do this because it can be applied it to any organism. These studies have gave many scientist and genetic engineers the boost in finding valuable information into the human body functions and why we have so many diseases. By manipulating the genetic code of bacteria we can discover many things we didn’t know , we could find out what cause bacteria to be bad for us and try to discover on how it can help us or how we can benefit when acquiring the knowledge of such bacteria. By taking a step forward and taking a deep look at the DNA and the genos we access that such vidale information and seek so much just from noing so. There has been so many good from genetic manipulation that scientist have broke through and have sequences the complete genomes of many organisms. As we dive further into this we can discover so much. The first organisms to be genetically engineered were introduced into plants and animals. But bacterial systems are a much better in genetic manipulation because of how excellent their rapid reproduction rate is. Bacteria has a very important role because they are routinely used to produce non bacterial

With this, we will be able to tackle some of the most deadly and disastrous diseases (Rinkesh). With genetic engineering it is possible to live longer, to abolish diseases that could kill early on, and help humans adapt to the growing problems of things like global warming (Rinkesh). There are very few examples where genetic engineering is the only good solution to the medical problem of a genetic disease (Human Genetics Alert). It has the possibility of being a cure for disease, but it is still extremely unsafe. It can cause huge problems to the human body. It could cause babies to die early on. Genetic engineering could also cause a new disease we may not be able to stop with genetic engineering. It is wrong to mess with nature and play the role of God

Another fear with genetic engineering is the idea of eugenics. Eugenics is the concept of creating the perfect human with the most desirable traits. The opposition would ask the question of what is considered “good” or “bad” traits. The fear is that it would create a discrimination between genetically made humans and naturally made humans. I believe the argument does not put into account that each individual has their own beliefs on what makes a good or bad trait.

Creation of computers using tools, which allows faster transmission of information and more automated processes

Genetic engineering is the process of being able to manually add new DNA to an organism. This is to try and add one or more new traits to an organism, which does not have these certain traits. An example of this being done is how bacteria have been genetically engineered to produce human insulin. Insulin is a hormone, which is produced by the pancreas that allows the body to use sugar from carbohydrates in food that is eaten for energy or to store glucose for future use. Basically insulin helps your body keep your blood sugar levels from becoming too high (hyperglycemia) or too low (hypoglycemia). But for people with type 1 or 2 diabetes it can be a challenge to produce insulin, as their beta cells in the pancreas are destroyed/damaged or do not respond well or are resistant to insulin. Therefore these people need to gain their insulin from an external source. For many years it was gained from the pancreas of a cow or a pig. However this was very expensive and difficult, also the insulin could cause allergic reactions. This is where genetic engineering came in. Once the structure of human insulin was found in 1955 cow and pig insulin could be chemically modified to be the same as human insulin. Genetically engineered microbes now make it. They produce human insulin in a pure form, which is less likely to cause allergic reactions.

Most people do not like the idea of cloning humans. Many also disagree with being able to use genetic engineering to prevent genetic defects or to choose certain trait for their children. Many fear that children would become objects rather than human beings. President Clinton stated, "Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. At its worst [this new method] could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kinds of children - to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals." Besides, who can say for sure that this technology will be used in a beneficial way? Someone, somewhere is likely going to do the unethical thing (Kevles 354). Kevin T. Fitzgerald said cloning is not needed because alternate solutions to these problems already exist, social and psychological problems cannot and should not simply be solved by genetic solutions, and cloning humans for the purpose of supplying organs would cause a great ethical uproar (Fitzgerald). Gene therapy also presents many problems. Since it is very expensive, only the wealthy could afford to have children without undesirable traits. This would further

He reasoned that there were certain rules by which these characteristics were inherited. He guessed that each plant must possess some sort of unit that specified its characteristics. In fact, each must have two units, one from each parent plant. If the plant inherited two different units, then one would override the other. This was called the dominant unit, and the one that was overridden was called the recessive unit. Mendel's theories were not discovered till 1900, and it began the science called genetics , the study of a physical inheritance. From this name, Mendel's units were changed into genes.

Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis is a revolutionary procedure that utilizes in vitro fertilization to implant a healthy egg cell into the mother’s uterus after it is screened for mutations or other abnormalities. That way, only healthy eggs can develop to term and become beautiful, bouncing boys or girls. Designer babies have a bright future in the face of science because they are genetically engineered to be: disease free; viable donors for a sibling or parent; and with optional elimination of any severe cosmetic disorders that might develop,—without risk to human diversity in the future.