Most people do not realise just how much time and money is now going into creating solutions to our everyday problems using genetic engineering, problems such as our food crops being destroyed by viruses. ... Vegetative reproduction is considered by some people to be a natural form of cloning. ... Scientists are unsure how, but the injected genes find their way to the recipient cell's genes and incorporate themselves among them. ... Once the harms have been identified, scientists will try to discover how frequently these risks are likely to occur. ... Scientists are unable to predict i...

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The writer, Chris Colby, introduces to the readers how evolution is misunderstood from people who are interested in science. ... He introduces in one topic how people have common misconceptions about evolution. He states in his article how evolution can occur without morphological change and morphological change can occur without evolution. ... A genetic drift can cause a difference in allele frequency if the gene flow is small. ... When DNA is copying, it may go through an error. ...

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Now the challenge is to find out what each sequence codes for and then how to manipulate the sequences. ... After they know what the protein does, a ways in the future, they can possibly even correct the error by replacing it with a healthy functioning gene and get that cell to multiply in the area the important protein is needed. Already the genes for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, and retinoblastoma have been identified, right now the technology allows us to look at the genes and see how environmental factors, foods, drugs or pollutants are affecting people and their diseases....

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In nature, human clones, better known as twins, can be born with identical physical features, but their genetic material are never exactly the same. ... Even with the inevitable occurrence of accidental human error, improperly redistributed genes could cause unwanted results or grave medical mistakes. ... When their children grow older, they are paired with other peoples" children, and they produce offspring also. This is how grandparent, parent, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, and cousin relations are formed. ... But with a genetically engineered baby, people can create their visions of ...

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They would also like to be able to read and process the genetic information of people that can be obtained. It is stated that one out of every ten thousand strands of bases there is an error, but there are over thirty thousand genes in the human DNA. ... Cells, themselves, are complexly built and that is so the cell can have a specific trait. ... The medical field would be better able to diagnosis disease and better able to understand how to treat it. ... It is a debate on who should be allowed to acquire this knowledge and how to share it fairly. ...

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During the same twenty-eight years over 650 people have been executed. ... These statistics are just one example of how the system of capitol punishment has proven to be unreliable. A recent study by Columbia University Law School found that two thirds of all capitol crime contained serious errors. ... Once someone is killed there is nothing anybody can do to restore the lost life however many people feel in order to bring closure to the crime and ordeal of the victim's family the murderer must be killed. That way the family can feel justified and it is ensured that the murderer will cre...

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Just how did we get to where we are now? How are we different from our ancient ancestors? ... Can criminals and other threats really be stopped by this method? Are people born or made criminals? ... Manipulation of genes will hardly ever be free from error and may even lead to a disastrous new class of diseases. ...

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From that idea, it follows all people are likely to agree when making the same observation. ... Some people call it "literature search." ... The uncertainty is frequently called error, but it does not imply a mistake or deliberate flaw. Error, in this use, expresses how certain you are in the truth (or correctness) of your decision. A good example of known uncertainty (error) is found with polling results. ...

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