Genetic Engineering

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Genetic Engineering : Torn Between Two Lovers

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Christmas is nearing and Thanksgiving Day is over . Probably , stomachs are full of salads and poultry dishes . Unknowingly , most of these poultry and salads are made up of crops and agriculturally important products that have undergone genetic modification or cloning in the well popular term . With the rise of industrial revolution , it is accompanied by the increased development in the field of molecular biology and

biotechnology wherein cloning and genetic engineering was developed to address certain crisis in food supply and medicine . Today , genetic engineering has reached it 's limelight as it has been used not only to improve the quality and production of economically important crops but also raised a problem in ethical issues such as the cloning of human beings

In brief review , genetic engineering is the manipulation of the central control transcript of the cell- DNA . Through the use of certain vectors such as plasmids and enzymes , genes encoded for specific proteins that will confer advantageous traits are transferred , altered for improvement , and mange through certain biochemical process to yield a very satisfactory organism producing certain kind of reaction based on the manipulation done . One good example is the insertion of genes for pest resistance and increase crop yield in grains , wheat , rice tomatoes , cabbages and corn . Another concrete instance is the production of insulin by the insertion of insulin gene to certain kind of...