Genetic Engineering Chapter Summary

After reading this book, I thought this book was really amazing. This book made some really good points that I had never known before. The author informed the readers everything they needed to know about genetic engineering. Also, this book did a really good job at clearing all the questions I had before. The most impressive part of the book was how it was organized. It was very neat in the fact that each subject in this book was set up with a negative and a positive. That way when there are opposing arguments, the readers get to experience different viewpoints. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning more about genetic engineering. There are many subjects in this book like human genetic engineering, cloning, research on human embryos destined for discard, ethics on

Genetic engineering is the manipulation of an organism’s genetic structure. Genetic engineering typically involves splicing DNA from different donor organisms and then inserting the spliced DNA into a host organism. So far, genetic engineering has made great strides in a short period of time. For example, pet stores started selling zebrafish. Zebrafish had a jellyfish gene inserted into them that allows them to glow in the dark. Similarly, scientists engineered tomatoes that have a flounder gene, which allows the vegetables to resist cold temperatures the same way the fish tolerates cold water. Entire organisms have been cloned too by transferring a nucleus from an organism into an egg that doesn’t have a nucleus. That’s how Dolly the sheep was born. She was cloned from the nucleus of a mammary cell of an adult ewe. Unfortunately, Dolly died early of lung cancer, which was the cause of her unnatural birth. Although, Genetic engineering is not perfected, but in the near future scientists will uncover everything that needs to be known about genetic