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Ok, so I'm writing a paper on genetic engineering. Im going to talk about using G.E to increase human immunities to diseases, viruses, and bacteria. Also in my introduction I helded introduce genetic engineering children to give them the traits u wanted. As my attention grabber I talked about human chimeras,
If anyone has any ideas to help me out I would appriciate them.
I need sites to go to with credible sources, or any experts in genetic engineering would be useful too.
I tried to start with general things and then went to specific since this is a very complicated subject.
This is my intro, I have some reordering to do but thats it.
Chemistry states that the universe constantly moves towards disorder, while mans purpose in life is to bring greater order to the universe. Many of the scientific advancements are made to improve the quality of human life, while the others try to understand the entropy of the universe. One might think these advancements would be welcomed with open arms, but sadly they are not. Humans fear what they do not understand and this is why politicians are carefully controlling the research, because many people simply do not understand the benefits of genetic engineering. In fact, the first chemists, or alchemists in their day, had to hide their research through a code, that later became the periodic table, for fear of being accused of witchcraft. One area of research that still receives this crucible-like persecution, as of late, has been genetic engineering.
Genetic engineering has both good and dark sides to it like every field of science, but many people only see the dark side. Just because radioactive materials can be used to make bombs that can wipe out an entire city, does not mean that we should discontinue the research of radiation and isotopes. After all, we use different kinds of radiation to treat various forms of cancer and find problems throughout the body. There are many perils to treating diseases with genetic engineering; however, there are risks in most every medical science practice when they are first introduced into the world. Genetic engineering presents a way to improve the quality of human life through the lives it saves, the immunities it creates, and through the genetically engineered food we consume by increasing nutrients and life of the products. One who does not understand this type of research would just have it banned, but there are many reasons to keep and even improve in this field of research. Genetic engineering is merely a way of transferring a genome to one species, or organism, to another so that it acquires the same trait. Susan Aldridge best described genetic engineering as a cut, copy, and paste process with a strand of DNA. If one were to think of a salmon for instance, they can not live in cold waters normally, but genetically modified they are able to withstand temperatures at which they would normally die. Theses transgenic, or genetically modified, salmon were given a protein in the blood that works as an anti-freezing agent from the winter flounder.
The first and most fascinating piece of knowledge that I have gained from genetics are human chimeras. This was on a TV show where they could not find the killer when they had a sample of his DNA and knew that the killer had to be within his family. The crime team took samples of everyone in his family only to find that they were no direct matches in the people but that it was in the family. Finally, the crime team took two sample of his DNA to find out he was a human chimera and that he was the killer. Chimeras do not contain just one set of DNA but two sets from fusing with their twin, while they were in the womb. These type of people also have mosaics on the surface of there skin, which are basically patches of skin and or hair that differ from other skin and hair. This means that one part of their skin could have a different DNA set that another. If an Atlantic salmon could be given a trait to make it withstand artic temperatures and humans can be born healthy with two sets of DNA, then imagine what medical marvels could be produced from this type of research.
If anyone has any ideas to help me out I would appriciate them.
I need sites to go to with credible sources, or any experts in genetic engineering would be useful too.
I tried to start with general things and then went to specific since this is a very complicated subject.
This is my intro, I have some reordering to do but thats it.
Genetic Engineering
Genetic engineering has both good and dark sides to it like every field of science, but many people only see the dark side. Just because radioactive materials can be used to make bombs that can wipe out an entire city, does not mean that we should discontinue the research of radiation and isotopes. After all, we use different kinds of radiation to treat various forms of cancer and find problems throughout the body. There are many perils to treating diseases with genetic engineering; however, there are risks in most every medical science practice when they are first introduced into the world. Genetic engineering presents a way to improve the quality of human life through the lives it saves, the immunities it creates, and through the genetically engineered food we consume by increasing nutrients and life of the products. One who does not understand this type of research would just have it banned, but there are many reasons to keep and even improve in this field of research. Genetic engineering is merely a way of transferring a genome to one species, or organism, to another so that it acquires the same trait. Susan Aldridge best described genetic engineering as a cut, copy, and paste process with a strand of DNA. If one were to think of a salmon for instance, they can not live in cold waters normally, but genetically modified they are able to withstand temperatures at which they would normally die. Theses transgenic, or genetically modified, salmon were given a protein in the blood that works as an anti-freezing agent from the winter flounder.
The first and most fascinating piece of knowledge that I have gained from genetics are human chimeras. This was on a TV show where they could not find the killer when they had a sample of his DNA and knew that the killer had to be within his family. The crime team took samples of everyone in his family only to find that they were no direct matches in the people but that it was in the family. Finally, the crime team took two sample of his DNA to find out he was a human chimera and that he was the killer. Chimeras do not contain just one set of DNA but two sets from fusing with their twin, while they were in the womb. These type of people also have mosaics on the surface of there skin, which are basically patches of skin and or hair that differ from other skin and hair. This means that one part of their skin could have a different DNA set that another. If an Atlantic salmon could be given a trait to make it withstand artic temperatures and humans can be born healthy with two sets of DNA, then imagine what medical marvels could be produced from this type of research.
