Moreover, genetic engineering could avoid the use of hormones in animals. Farm animals could be genetically modified so productivity could be increased. ... It will not only increase the productivity in general, but also reduce some health problems related to how crops are grown and how animals are fed currently. ... All the applications that have been mentioned take the world one step closer to the world everybody is dreaming of. ... Genes and traits that are linked to antiviral or antigen proteins can be added to an animal or a human being in order to help the immune system fight the diseas...

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However, "The world was shocked in February of 1997 when British scientist, named Ian Wilmot announced that his research team successfully cloned lamb named dolly from an adult sheep at the Roselyn Institute in Scotland".(1) For what seemed like a dream for many years quickly turned into reality. ... However, others would argue that animal rights are violated when doing research and testing on animals. ... It has been successfully carried out for years on many species of animals. ... Second, adult DNA cloning is a technique that produces a copy of an existing animal; it involves removing the...

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The first type of cloning started with plants then animals and now Humans. ... Adult cloning cannot ethical be used to produce a human clone, because experiments on animals have sometimes produced defective specimens." ... Take animal cloning for instance, which is very beneficial to the human race, such as Dolly who was created for medical purposes. ... There is also hope in creating animals such as pigs and cows with human protein genes to save human being lives. ... In addition, couples that are longing for children shall be able to fulfill their dreams. ...

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Genetic Engineering doesn't necessarily have to be used on humans as I have seemed to focus on, it can also be used on plants and animals. ... The possibilities are endless with such animals and plants things like world hunger would become a thing of the past. ... The Genetic advancements I spoke of in my essay are not apart of the here and now, they are more like vivid dreams that are closer than many people think. ...

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It doesn't have a heart, liver, lungs, kidney, or any other internal organs, and it doesn't have a central nervous system, which is what most people consider to be the separation between humans and animals. When it dies, the embryo is clearly not human, it is merely a collection of very special cells, less complex in architecture than almost any animal on earth. ... The only way to get around this would be to use eggs from other animals, this is currently being investigated with rabbit and cow eggs although no breakthroughs have yet been made. ...

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Cloning which was once a dream of the past might be the way of the future. ... Cloning could be used to increase the population of endangered species of animals and thus save them from total extinction. ...

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Biotechnology is used every day to change life, as we know it. In fact, people do not realize that early humans used biotechnology 10,000 years ago. Early humans were producing beer, wine, bread, and yogurt by means of fermentation. Biotechnology is any technique that uses organisms or their product...

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If you look in any standered highschool or collage basic biology book you will see the same basic format. Their will be chapters dealing with the cell and it's structure. Sections on plants and the chemical proceses that go into photosynthesis. You can read about the process of meiosis and meitosis and the structure of a DNA molecule! However all this information wasn't always at your fingertips for immediate knowledge gratification. ...

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