Is Biotechnology Affecting Our Community

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to cross breed different animals or cross breed different plants and see what the outcome would be or look like? Biotechnology gives us the opportunity to see how these different combinations would turn out. The essay will discuss what biotechnology is, a few specific examples of it, and how it affects our community. To start with biotechnology is the manipulation of an organism's genes or their genetic makeup. Basically what that means is taking genes from organism, cloning them and putting them into another organism. By manipulating certain things we can get them to do what we want them to. We can improve them to make them benefit us more. This is usually a pretty big thing when it comes to farmers. Plants were some of the few things that biotechnology was ever tested on, this was because it was not like we would lose a whole lot if it did damage the plant during the lab. We have been genetically modifying plants for over 30,000 years. However, recently is has just become become a bigger deal because we have made so many new advancements that we are now able to genetically modify things other than plants.

To genetically modify a plant they start out by extracting DNA with the trait that is wanted. With that DNA their then able to clone it by making an exact replication of what it looks like. After the cloning, they begin designing the DNA into what they want it to be. After that step is complete they then insert it into another plant to get their desired result. This is one of the most common types of biotechnology because it is one of the oldest so it is understood more. Another type of biotechnology is biotechnology in animals. An example of this is when a spider silk gene was inserted into a goat. What this did was it allowed the goat to produce mass amounts of spider