animals to achieve the desired results has been done since domestication itself. The actual

study of genetics started long ago, with Mendel and his studies. Now scientists know much

more of genetics and DNA. However, with the increased knowledge comes increases power, and

with power comes the potential to abuse it. With the potential to abuse power comes ethical

questions on what the humans race should do with this power.

The Austrian Monk Gregor Mendel discovered the basics of genetics. He was trained in

physics, then was recruited to a monastery to do some research in breeding plants and

animals. Mendel preformed his experiments with the pea plant, and found that a basic ratio

of things, such as the color of flowers, was always 1:3. This means that from every mating

of two pea plants, one would have a certain trait for every three plants that had a

different trait. For example, three plants would have white leaves for every one with pink

leaves. He concluded from this that there had to be some sort of basic law of heredity.

Mendel explained this by saying that parent plants had two factors,

or abnormal. Soon, one can find out much more about a fetus before it is born, such as its

species. DNA was not, however, at this time considered to be identical to genetic material,

negative things (Ethics par. 18-23).

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