At what point will our Ethics finally catch up to our technology? ... Genetic Engineering has received a large amount of attention on the ethics front. ... The only restriction it faces, for the moment, is the technology to chill these little computers; they generate an intense amount of heat. ... A Nanotechnological virus could be created much as computer viruses are now. ... Perhaps this technology should face a second restriction, not one of technology but one of ethics. ...

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They also know that it acts like a biological computer program over 3 billion bits long that "spells" out instructions for making the basic building blocks of life. ... Many questions have been raised by a number of people and scientists about the ethics of DNA research. ...

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Important Facts the smallest unit of life is the cell instructions for development are contained in DNA collectively, all of the chemical processes in a cell are called metabolism producers often obtain energy from the sun homeostasis refers to the ability to maintain a constant internal environm...

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