Genetic Engineering

Genetic Engineering: Improve the quality of life Who would have thought that Dolly the sheep would cause a scientific “war”? Genetic Engineering is the alteration of an organism’s genetic, or hereditary, material to eliminate undesirable characteristics or to produce desirable new ones (Levine1). Two of a kind in a card game is great, how about in society. Genetic Engineering is beneficial and can significantly improve the quality of life. The first genetic engineering technique, …

…the precise details of our genetic instructions had to seem an impossible dream that only much later generations would ever be able to realize. The extraordinary possibilities allowed by the procedures of recombinant DNA, however, have turned these fantasies into potential reality.(96) Genetic engineering is beneficial and can significantly improve the quality of life in many ways such as: health, redesigning mankind and inherited diseases. Therefore society should keep an open mind on this issue.