Genetic Engineering: The act of adjusting or duplicating one's genetic structure within one's DNA. Includes cloning and customizing the outcome of a child, plant, or animal.
What are your opinions on genetically engineering humans? Do you think it's right to customize your own child? Do you think it's right to clone a human?
Many believe that genetic engineering will help end a numerous amount of genetic diseases, like cancer. This will prevent such diseases from being passed down from one generation to another. However, it seems too good to be true... Repairing and eliminating one's susceptibility to cancer may introduce another flaw. If you replace a letter on the DNA strand, you may remove one's susceptibility to cancer but activate another flaw. So your child may not have cancer, but they might have 3 ears, or six fingers! This is because fixing a code on the DNA works in a domino effect (a gene fixed may cause another flaw, and that flaw can cause another, and another, and so on).
Do you think it's worth the risk? What will happen to all the children with "accidents"?
Also onto the topic of cloning: Many support cloning because the clones can be used as test animals or servants. Others want clones to be back-ups in case an organ fails.
Do you think this is humane?
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Genetic engineering, I believe, has just far too many possibilities to ignore and just pass by. Genetically engineering plants with faster growing genes will increase the rate in which our natural plants grow, and increasing the number of foods out there. But we just shouldn't clone humans, in my opinion. :[
Anyways, the world is supposedly going forward with genetic engineering.
- Rumor has it that Korea has cloned a human (which I highly doubt).
- Numerous cloned animals have already been created, including Dolly.
- A couple in Florida purchased a cloned version of their deceased dog not too long ago for $155,000.
- A clinic in California is advertising that they will be offering services to customize the outcome of your child (e.g. If you want sandy blonde hair, you've got it!).
So what are your views? :>