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...

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...

Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification, is the direct manipulation of an organism’s genes using biotechnology. It is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to produce improved or novel...

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...

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...

This paper will seek and discuss the opinion of “GMO is it Bad For Us or Does it Serves a Higher Purpose” (Genetically Modified Organism) and how it can affect the communities. This article will argue the benefits of the GMO. The paper will explore...

DNA are molecules in the chromosomes that contain your genetic information. Every human has a different set of DNA. The first person to study DNA was the Swiss chemist, Johann Friedrich Miescher, in the 1860s. Some of the famous pioneers who contributed to the study...

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...

The word clone is used in many different contexts in biology research, however, it all comes down to the simplest form, it refers to a precise “genetic copy of a molecule, cell, plant, animal, or human being” (Sunstein,1999). For cloning to take off, there were...

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...

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...

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...

Understanding any functionally biological product is very important. For this, we need to understand and know the location of that particular gene from where the product from that gene is being transcribed and translated. The reason to know the location of the gene is very...

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...

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:...

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 article I chose to write about for the second writing assignment focuses on Scinax treefrogs in south-eastern Brazil and how sea level incursions has shaped their genetic differentiation. I chose to write about this paper because I find it interesting how species near each...