"What will it be like in a future world where your life started with your parents designing your genes? In addition to screening for unwanted genetic diseases, they select for sex, height, eye-, hair-, and skin-color. Pressured by the current social fads, they may also choose genes whose overall functions are not clearly underst

Up to now living organisms have evolved very slowly, and new forms have had plenty of time to settle in?. Now whole proteins will be transposed overnight into wholly new associations, with consequences no one can foretell, either for the host organism or their neighbors.

Despite the few benefits of GE, such as feeding the hungry and eliminating disease, the majority of society believes that GE is wrong. This is evident in the many movies, articles in papers, magazines, and the Internet, that speak about the dangers of GE.

One of the co-discoverer of the DNA code, Dr. James Watson, disregards the ethical issues of GE. He once claimed, "until a tiger devours you, you don't know that the jungle is dangerous." By this he meant that he wanted to go forward and continue in GE ignoring the chance of being "devoured by a tiger." Maybe that is okay with him, but when GE occurs, it will affect the whole environment, and that will put us all at risk. Many scientist are not concerned with whether things are morally right or wrong, they are more concerned

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Recombinant DNA, Engineering Obviously, James Watson, Engineering GE, Genetic Engineering, Nobel Prize-winning, Park Gattaca, genetic engineering, Ron Epstein, living organisms, , animal plant, life earth, ethical issues,