One chemical holds the secret of life. It contains the instructions for manufacturing everything from bacteria to a human being with trillions of specialized or genetically altered cells. The chemical is called deoxyribonucleic acid, or what is better known as DNA. It is about to change our world o...

Genetic engineering. Is this a genius procedure or simply a case of impatience and hunger for money? After doing further research on the topic, I\'ve found myself torn between opinions about whether or not genetic engineering is practical. The conclusion that I have personally come to is that aside...

As a nation, we are constantly trying to increase the amount of goods we produce and the amount of time they are able to last. From adding preservatives to our food, to injecting cows with hormones to increase their size, to even larger gas tanks on our cars for better gas mileage. We can genetica...

The development of science helps the appearance of different branches.Genetic Engineering is one of the latest branches.This branch of science deals with cells,DNA and cloning.The definition of cloning is that 'The production of genetically identical organisms via sometic cell...

Ever since 1800 BC, people have been using organisms to create new and different foods. Mankind has made much progress since then, incorporating new and different plant traits into everyday foods. These changes make new improvements in the food we eat. Corn is one of the most common staple foods...

Patrick Donahoe Nats 104 3-9-00 Herbicide-Tolerant Crops Crop management is a vigorous activity that changes as technologies are developed. Now that were in the new millennium, we are finding new and enhanced ways to improve things that effect us in our everyday lives like, industrial poll...

From cucumbers and carrots to white rice and wheat, we humans have altered the genes of almost every food we eat. For almost 10,000 years we've been engineering plants by keeping the seeds from the best crops and planting those the next season. Following this practice year after year has resulted in...

I think that geneticly modifying/engineering is OK to be done but within consideration. I don't think cloning of humans should be done under any conditions, because there to much room for error, a error made in humans could reck lives. No matter how careful any scientists are, acidents do happen. A...

Anthrax: Poor Man's Atomic Bomb? Ever since the nationwide anthrax scare following the tragic events of September 11th, the biological agent's name has become another taboo word in the English language. Paranoia swept the nation to the point where a cloud of baby powder would cause peop...

Horizontal Gene TransmissionFor centuries, humankind has made improvements to crop plants through selective breeding and hybridization, the controlled pollination of plants. Plant technology is an extension of this traditional plant breeding with one important difference, plant biotechnology allow...

BacteriaThe two most basic types of cells are eukaryotic and prokaryotic. Animal cells fall under the eukaryotic classification while bacteria, which will be the topic discussed, fall into the prokaryotic classification. Bacteria have a wide variety of characteristics, which includes, cell structur...