The Promise Of Genetic Engineering
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A girl is born without Tay-Sachs disease, a devasting genetic
disorder that has decimated a lot of babies worldwide. A leukemia patient
has defective bone marrow replaced with healthy bone marrow that was cloned
from tissue from her own cells. These futuristic scenarios are not part of
the debat ....
Middle of paper
.... consequences
of this relatively recent breakthrough and determine in which ways it can
be used to humanity's best advantage. This speech will investigate the
ways in which genetic engineering affects two important areas in today's
society. The first one will be the improvement of the world's agricultural
techniques. With an ever-increasing growth in world population, the
Earth's resources are constantly becoming scarce. The advent of genetic
engineering may be used to avert the occurrenc ....
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