Genetic Engineering: The Key To The Dangers Of Genetic Engineering

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Genetic engineering is the set of techniques used to manipulate and modify the genetic material of living beings that have been the key to the rapid development of modern biotechnology. Recombination mechanisms provide limited genetic exchange. Mankind has spent his life correcting the habits of nature to make it to his liking, so that it would be more helpful; Mankind has transformed plants to make them more useful for their crops, has domesticated animals so that they could help them with the tasks of the field. In short, that man has modeled the nature around him to the point that can frighten us and everything. Mankind uses the universality of the genetic code and the mechanisms of protein synthesis of living things, in order to try the controlled combination of DNA of different species. The great advances in knowledge are beginning to allow genetic manipulation of human beings to eliminate hereditary illnesses or perhaps in the not so distant future to modify the human species. And of course at this horizon appear from various sectors multitude of voices appealing to an ethereal ethics warn us of the terrible dangers to modify our "sacred" DNA but why do not we do it?
The first thing to consider is that the human being carries millennia trying to improve their living conditions and those of their descendants. Of course first unconsciously …show more content…

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