Genetically Engineered Foods: Good or Bad for You? An issue that has entered the media in a lot of countries, including the United States, is the genetic engineering of food. Genetic engineering is a laboratory technique used by scientists to change the DNA of living organisms. The life, grow...

Human Cloning Is It Ethical Or Is It Beneficial or Devastating Human cloning is a big issue in the world today. This has been a controversial issue over the possibilities that, human cloning would become the greatest breakthrough in the scientific world, or is it unet...

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...

Jones 1 The Pros of Biotechnology Biotechnology can be used to help humans. As essayist Cecie Starr and Ralph Taggart write "biotechnology can be used to cure rare diseases." Biotechnology can be used to help any form of life from plants to animals and even food. For more than three bi...

I'll be the first to admit it, I'm a skeptic of the worst kind; it's just my nature, I guess. So, I guess it goes without saying that I'm not impressed with all the recent hype about the Human Genome Project. People have gone so far as to hail the HGP as "the cure" for...

Introduction:Resolved:I. A.Did you know that over 40% of the foods for sale in the grocery store are genetically engineered? Did you also know that the Federal Drug and Administration, also known as the "F.D.A.", the government agency responsible for your health and general safety, does not require...

Biochemical Surgery The desire to improve our world is inherently human. From our health to our food, humans strive to enhance what we have. With the biotechnological age upon us, this desire is being channeled in directions that were previously unforeseen. Scientists have learned a great deal ...

Benefits of Genetically Modified OrganismsWe live in a world that is constantly changing and advancing thanks to technological advancements, especially in the field of molecular genetics. Today, we are discovering and implementing new ways to overcome the ill-fated symptoms develop...

Jones 1The Pros of BiotechnologyBiotechnology can be used to help humans. As essayist Cecie Starr and Ralph Taggart write "biotechnology can be used to cure rare diseases." Biotechnology can be used to help any form of life from plants to animals and even food. For more than three billion years, n...

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...

Chances are you have already eaten genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Look at the ingredient list on any packaged food in your cupboard. Any food with ingredients from corn, soy, canola, or cottonseed is likely to be made with GMOs. Thousands of products on supermarket shelves are made with GMOs...

Diversity EssayAmerican biologist R. H. Whittaker in 1959 described a classification system of five primary kingdoms: plants, animals, fungi, protists, and monera. Kingdom animalia cover all taxonomic kingdom all living or extinct animals, an example of an animal is a human. Humans thrive off of on...