An example of a genetically engineered plant is Bt-corn.  ... Green biotechnology has been used is genetically engineer plants to create medicines and vaccinations. Golden rice has been genetically engineered with certain proteins that help prevent blindness. ... Genetically engineered plants can preserve them to grow more crops to give to people. ... Scientist is creating ways of bioengineering and chemical engineering a virus's life cycle in the patients favor. ...

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They are chemical instructions for building and maintaining life. ... Growing GM foods like the B.t. corn can help eliminate chemical pesticides. ... Plants can be genetically engineered to be resistant to herbicides and this would prevent environmental damage by reducing the amount of weed killer needed. ... Lastly, environmentalists are concerned that plants engineered for herbicide tolerance and weeds will cross breed, transferring the herbicide resistance genes from the cops into the weeds. ...

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These crops have been engineered to produce their own pesticides. "Many Americans have already begun to eat genetically engineered vegetables but research confirms that hardly any of us know it (Pollan 603)." ... Critics call the technology an example of a drive by agribusiness to make farmers dependent on them and the chemicals many of them produce. ... Although physicians are currently using gene therapy, they say that germ-line therapy would be much easier in finding the right place for the engineered genes (Joyce 623). ...

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The product being used was a potato which had been engineered to express an insecticidal compound (lectin) from the snow drop plant. ... This is what focused the attention on the role of chemical carrier of genetic information by the DNA. ... This then led to the experimentation of identifying enzymes which allowed parts of a DNA sequence to be chemically cut and recombined with other sources. ...

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When you have a reconstructed egg after somatic cell nuclear transfer has been performed, it is then treated with chemicals or electric current to induce cell division. ... Some say that cloning may be used as an attempt to improve the human race, or lead to engineered people that will help in specific purposes such as mass workers and military action. ... Along with the genetically engineered human comes people made for a specific future such as models, actors, and many other careers. ...

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