Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering
Summery:
This article is mainly talking about the definition and different effects of genetic engineering. According to this website, genetic engineering is a process which modify the gene of organism by using some techniques. By using this method, human being can take benefit from nature in some way. For instance, non-seed-water-mellon are wildly eaten in Chinese, they are much more bigger and sweeter than normal water mellon. However, people still doubt that genetic engineering may cause some serious problem to human beings, some of us believe that this method may leads to unexpected changing in nature. This article doesn’t give any clear answers for that, actually nobody can be 100% sure about their opinion, because this technique is still young in our history. There are some pros and cons that given by this article bellow.
Pro 1. Genetic engineering can help plants in better flavor, growth rate and nutrition, which means genetic engineering is actually helping a lot in production. By using this method, food can be grew much faster.
Pro 2. Pest-resistant Crops and Extended Shelf Life. People can input different combination of DNA between two independent genes to give plants a new feature. By doing this, crops can gain the ability to resist halm from animals or environment.
Pro 3. Genetic Alteration to Supply New Foods. For instance, high protein food.
Pro 4. Modification of the Human DNA.
Con 1. May Hamper Nutritional Value.
Con 2. May Introduce Risky Pathogens.
Con 3. May Result to Genetic Problems.
Con 4. Unfavorable to Genetic Diversity.
Commentary:
In my point of view, genetic engineering started a revolution in the field of food production, which varied the types of food, and offered enough amount of food to a large population. It have definitely help the whole society a lot. However, the lack of knowledge about the dark side doesn’t mean that it has not bad influences on human beings. After hundreds of years, nobody can forecast how things are going that time. Maybe the acuminated damage will explode!
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