Moral and Biological Considerations in Genetic Engineering

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This paper argues for and against the use of genetic engineering from a number of perspectives. It shows that, even though God has given man the knowledge to manipulate genes in such a way as to eliminate almost any blemish, the question remains whether this is the right thing to do. The paper mentions that, on the one hand, the scientific potential is mindboggling; but on the other hand, many fear that the power of eliminating certain types of genes, could be blown out of proportion.

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"The alteration of the genetic structure of any organism is done by means of Genetic engineering that provides characters beneficial or pleasing to the individual performing the alternation. In other words it is a treatment of the DNA or RNA pool (Sarah. 2002). For instance, the most greatly well known example of genetic engineering is the sheep Dolly that was cloned in the year 1996. Here, in order to create Dolly, the scientists took out cells from the udder of a pregnant, six year old ewe and then these cells were put into not related host eggs that had their DNA separated. Thus, as an alternate of creating one fertilized egg, a reproduction or a duplicate of an adult animal was made (Sarah. 2002)."

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