Essay On Transgenic Technology

Introduction:

This article will be discussing the current methods of developing transgenic organisms, animals and plants, and its ethical and biological implications, along with how evolution will be influenced by man made gene alterations. As the development of human civilization gallops, public health care and construction are able to increase human race’s longevity significantly to a degree where the limited life-providing supplies seem even more precious at unprecedented level. Thus, transgenic technology has become a crucial part in sustaining the development of the whole human kind. Scientists use transgenic methods to produce much more food supply since over sixty million people on the earth are still suffering from hunger on a daily basis. As we all know, there are only limited resources on the earth and the earth is not going to expand for any reason, at the same time the global population is still increasing dramatically, especially at those developing countries where the primary income for a house hold is labour force, therefore their family produce more children which presumably will need more food in order to stay alive. Also scientists are using transgenic approach to produce well advantaged species that can provide the possibly of living to many deadly diseases or use those species for military purposes. We have to admit the fact that there lots of benefits but on the other hand, the detrimental consequences of transgenic technology cannot be overlooked.

More and more people have realized that many restrictions that are put on the this filed is very important before we actually figure out what the answers to the some of the important ethical questions are. A sword always has its two sides. The influences of tra...

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...y lead to a chimeric offspring. The steps of developing a genetically modified crop (GMC) The steps are: “isolation of the gene of interest, indention of the gene, plant transformation, selection of the selected cells, regeneration in a large amount through tissue culture, verification of the transformation of the characterization of the inserted DNA fragment, and safety assessment” (CM Crop)

The whole idea here is to insert the gene and find out the one that work and separate them from the null ones, then reproduce them in a large amount and the final stage will be the verification of what we want. The last step might be overlooked by many people, but oftentimes is more important than we think it will be. Because even if the desired traits have been inherited through the selection, but they might perform differently under different environmental conditions and.