Organic compounds also make up enzymes and catalysts that are mandatory for essential biological processes to occur. ... Failure of ion transport may result in the failure of an important biological process in the body. ... Agricultural and food chemistry uses both organic and analytical methods to continually develop new research regarding plant toxins, contaminates and additives, amino acids, foreign material, pesticide residue, etc. Imported and exported meat is tested for anabolic steroids while pesticide residues are measured in soils and water. The synthesis of metabolites and other s...

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Along with the vaccine the US Food and Drug Administration has now allowed food processors to radiate there meat to get rid of the bacteria. ... Do not use the same utensils for cooked meat as you did raw meat because it can carry bacteria. ... For example, washing hands often when handling meat and cooking meat thoroughly. ... This process is what they use to connect strands of E-coli and recall meat. ... The movie is wrong on its take toward processing plants. ...

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It has been used in increasing the production plant and animal food, developing disease-resistant plants, diagnosing disease, improving medical treatments, and producing vaccines and other useful drugs. ... A process known as recombinant DNA, where scientists directly alter genetic material, has recently revolutionized genetic engineering. ... Other uses of genetic engineering include the area of animal production; research is presently being performed to provide society with leaner meat, larger animals and faster growth. ... Environmentalists also fear that plants that have been genetically ...

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GMO's are plants or animals that have been genetically altered with the DNA from bacteria, viruses, chemicals and other plants and animals. The purpose of this process is to make the animal or plant immune to herbicide or produce insecticide and grow faster for more profit (The NonGMO Project). ... The ring spot virus was killing the plant and sickening those who ate the fruits. ... So now we are not only getting GMO's from the fruits and vegetables we eat, but from the meat and milk that we consume as well. ... The reason for this is that the pollen from GMO plants fly over and ends...

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Wells wrote those words in his novel The Time Machine in 1895; he recognized man's ability to alter other organisms; however, at that time it was a gradual, slow, and clumsy process. ... No longer does the gradual process of selective breeding confine improvements; we now have the ability to genetically modify a species' specific characteristics within a single generation (Ford 65). ... Although man has been varying the make-up of other organisms through breeding for thousands of years, a forum of distinguished scientists and educators called SCOPE explain that "the terms genetic...

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Well through the process of cloning we could easily create all the organs that we needed which could save many lives. ... This is relevant because a lot of the experimentation process for cloning would be done on sperm, ovum, zygotes and embryos. ... 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. ... Or you could have a cow that always gave off extra tender meat. The possibilities are endless with such animals and plants things like world hunger would become a thing of the past. ...

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When a plant has matured, it grows extra leaves usually on long spindly vines. ... When using viruses to move genes artificially, the virus carries the new gene into a recipient cell in the process of infecting that cell. ... Lists of Agricultural Research Topics suggest a variety of benefits companies have envisioned, including animals engineered for leaner meat, plants engineered for herbicide tolerance or insect resistance, bacteria engineered to produce drugs for livestock and more. ... Genes are being added to plants to enable them to remove heavy metals like mercury from the soil a...

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A well known belief to man, the belief of reincarnation came from the ancient Egyptians who believed that there was life after death and preserved the body of their rulers through a process of mummification. This is a process of preservation that kept the original body and shape of the ruler for his/her return to earth. ... Modern science takes the idea of human life and it's regeneration and brings it to life through the process of cloning. ... By 1973 Cohen and Boyer create first recombinant DNA organisms. 1978, the release of David Rorvik's book, In His Image: The Cloning of a man...

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