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The Promise of Genetic Engineering

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Genetic engineering is a quite volatile topic these days. On the one side, people are screaming about how people are "playing God" and the potential for disaster, and on the other side people are screaming about the vast potential for good that it has. But how can anyone make a decision if most of those people do not even know what genetic engineering is?

The man who perhaps started this genetic revolution was a humble Augustininan monk by the name of Gregor Mendel. He lived in a monastery and raised peas in his garden. He studied the way in which certain traits of the peas, such as the color of the flower and the wrinkling of the peas, were passed from one generation of the plant to the next. He reasoned that there were certain rules by which these characteristics were inherited. He guessed that each plant must possess some sort of unit that specified its characteristics. In fact, each must have two units, one from each parent plant. If the plant inherited two different units, then one ... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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