... to gain sight or hearing. Although an open future is a positive moral outcome of germ-line therapy, more negative, moral problems arise. Society will begin to function differently with more and more people with altered genetics. "Some observers worry that our newly acquired ... by which all the genes of an existing person are transferred into an embryo and implanted into a surrogate mother's uterus. In germ-line therapy any number of genes from the sperm and the egg can be replaced with genes that are thought to be ... line therapy. With increasing medical knowledge remedies for blindnes...

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... , which lie beneath any visible characteristic, are the foundation for individuality. The advancement of technology has scientists questioning the strength of these foundations and discovering ways to enhance the gene line. Gene therapy is the placement of beneficial genes into the cells of patients with a disease or disorder. The patients' genes are transformed or recreated synthetically. However, this poses ... a new question in ethics. Where is the line drawn between treatment of the ill and enhancement of the greedy? Allowing gene therapy to produce deceitful creations of genes will ...

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... to be treated by genetic engineering, specifically, gene therapy. The basis of gene therapy is to supply a functional gene to cells lacking that particular function, thus correcting the genetic disorder or disease. There are two main categories of gene therapy: germ line therapy, or altering of sperm and egg cells, and somatic cell therapy, which is much like an organ transplant. Germ ... line therapy results in a permanent change for the entire organism, and its future offspring. Unfortunately, germ line therapy, is not readily in use on humans for ethical reasons. However, this geneti...

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... a symbiont relationship with another prokaryote. The aerobic prokaryote was enclosed by the bacterium's cell surface membrane in the process of endocytosis, which is made easy by the absence of a cell wall in the bacterium. The aerobic prokaryote wasn't digested but continued to function inside the other cell. The host cell received energy that the aerobic prokaryote released. The mitochondrion that ... history of the Earth's organisms. Paleontologists have assembled great evolutionary histories for many animal groups. An example would be looking at probable relationships between ancien...

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