Essays on Genetic Engineering

Genetic engineering, also known as genetic modification, is the direct manipulation of DNA to alter an organism’s characteristics (phenotype) in a particular way. It is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells to produce improved or novel organisms. An organism...

Genetic Engineering is a powerful and potentially very dangerous too. To change the sequence of nucleotides of the DNA that code for the structure of a complex living organism, can have extremely ill effects although the potential benefit can be huge. Genetic Engineering is a...

Ever since the first human genome, we have began to understand and even manipulate DNA. This has led to further scientific discovery, such as gene therapy and cloning. There have been opposing views over whether it is ethical to approach genetic engineering. I believe that...

Genetic engineering was meant to improve human lives, but its necessity is questionable. For instance, those who cannot afford eugenics there are chances that employment opportunities will be limited to them. They would end up with no employment because of their fate because they were...

Amongst the rapidly growing field of genetics lies a rather peculiar process which once was the pinnacle of Science Fiction now a certain absolute in reality – Cloning. Regardless of any controversial issues surrounding this process, it is now more widely used than ever and...

In this source, Aziz discusses the potential outcome of genetic engineering. He begins this source by suggesting that genetic modification can lead to the creation of humans that are like video game characters: enhanced and indestructible. The thought sounds ideal, but there are also a...

Genetic Engineering The Darwinian evolution focused on which species where going to get preserved through mutations from the pressures in the environment. Civilization then helped us alter the ecological environment in which we lived. Finally we are now entering a stage which many might call...

Will humans be able to edit our genes to be able to decrease the risk of certain genetic defects being passed down through generations, or be able to give same-sex couples the opportunity to have their own genetic children? Genetic editing has been the basis...

Human germline engineering is the process by which a human’s inherited traits (or genes) are adapted. This is attained through altering specimen within the germinal cells, for instance, the oocyte and spermatogonium. Human germline engineering should not be confused with gene therapy. Gene therapy consists...

Within a primate species’ general sequence analysis there lies a potentially new open reading frame (ORF) on Line-1 5’UTR (untranslated region). This ORF is positioned in the antisense side left of the ORF1 and ORF2 already known and called ORF0. ORF0 appears in 3000+ loci...

Introduction In the early years of scientific investigations in the field of heredity, the methods used to obtain data were considered genetical but once the physical basis of genetic conditions were recognized several studies were performed using methods of both cytology and genetics, using the...

The BBC article “Gene editing wipes out mosquitoes in the lab” discusses work using a gene editing technique to suppress populations of caged mosquitoes Anopheles gambiae, which transmits malaria. In 2016 were 216 million cases of malaria in 91 countries and 445000 people were killed...

Introduction Advances in atomic science methods have given the premise to revealing for all intents and purposes boundless quantities of DNA markers. The utility of DNA-based markers is for the most part dictated by the innovation that is utilized to uncover DNA-based polymorphism. Right now,...

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithm is a popular approach that has been widely used in optimization problems. This research on using Multi-objective genetic algorithm for motif discovery (MOGAMOD) was the first study to apply multi-objective genetic algorithm in the motif finding problem. By maximizing three conflicting objectives:...

The process of “knocking down” an undesirable gene is called gene silencing and may be carried out via RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi is a way of silencing the BLG gene using specifically designed molecules of RNA that target the mRNA from the BLG gene and...

CRISPR is a breakthrough in genetic editing technology, introduced in 2012. It cut the costs and time of genetic experiments by 99%. CRISPR is an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats and is a genetic tool used to modify a living thing’s DNA....

In his immortal work “On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, Chapter V, Charles Darwin summarized that though variation is essential in generation of the morphological innovations either in domestic or...

Secondary metabolites (SM) are low molecular weight organic compounds which produce from some of the primary metabolic biosynthetic pathways and interconnected with primary metabolite to gain the necessary amount of energy, carbon, and nitrogen. Secondary metabolites are not essential for growth and produced after growth...

My understanding of epigenetics is directly linked to my understanding of how basic genetics itself works. Cells which are popularly known as the “building blocks of life” or the “smallest unit of life” are like little workers in every human being that plays a major...