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discuss the use of biotechnology and genetic engineering for medical, environmental, legal, and pharmaceutical uses. What are the pros and cons to our society?

Why is genetic engineering such a controversial ethical issue?

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Genetic engineering isn't new, but CRISPR is, and it's a stunningly fast, flexible, cheap way to manipulate the code of life. It's so revolutionary (and unnerving) that hundreds of scientists and policymakers are continuously reviewing and researching the implications of this astonishing technology.

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This increasing power and accessibility of genetic technology may one day give parents the option of modifying their unborn children, in order to spare offspring from disease or, conceivably, make them tall, well muscled, intelligent or otherwise blessed with desirable traits.

1. Would this change mean empowering parents to give their children the best start possible? Or would it mean designer babies who could face unforeseen genetic problems?

2. Do you support human genetic engineering? Explain why.

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5. What parameters would you suggest setting (if any) around human genetic engineering?

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Q1.

You are a genetic engineering hired by the biotechnology company, Genes 'R' Us, to use genetic engineering to develop a new rose that glows. Place the following steps in the order you would need to perform them to successfully genetically engineer the rose with this trait.

-Extract all of the DNA from a firefly cell

-Use traditional plant breeding techniques to improve the performance of the rose, which has the new glowing gene (transgene)

-Clone the single gene that encodes the glowing protein

-Insert the glowing gene into single rose plant cell using either the gene gun or agrobacterium

-Modify the glowing gene so it acts In the way you want it once its inside the rose plants

-Identify the firefly as an organism that would have a gene encoding a protein for a ‘glowing trait’

Q2.

Genetic engineering is different from traditional plant breeding in that (select all that apply)

___genetic engineering 'physically' removes DNA (genes) from one organism and inserts them into another

___plant breeding and classical biotechnology relies on natural sexual reproduction to create variation while genetic engineering introduces variation one or a few genes at a time into a single cell.

___genetic variation used in classical biotechnology (plant breeding) comes from mutations in genes already found in that crop species. In genetic engineering, new genes are added to the genetic makeup of a plant

___genetic engineers can move DNA from any organism into any organism, even if they are not in the same species.

Q3.

Which method of plant transformation works and depends upon an organism that is a "naturally occurring" genetic engineer?

A)Gene Gun

B)Agrobacterium

C)Microneedle insertion into a plant egg cell

D)Electric Shock of Plant Cells

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