Medical practices will be altered when new clinical technologies based on DNA diagnostics are combined with information coming from genome maps. Another benefit will come from understanding genetic similarities between mammals and humans. What we learn about human genetics will help us to raise healthier, more productive, disease-resistant farm animals that might, through wise and careful genetic engineering, produce drugs of value to us. Technologies, databases, and biological resources developed in genome research will have an enormous impact on a wide variety of biotechnology-related industries in such fields as agriculture, energy production, waste control, and environmental cleanup. The criticism with all the benefits people tend to forget about a lot of things that could hurt our way of life by uncovering this information. Some less serious but still very important legal, social, and ethical issues will also need to be addressed.
It is my belief that the human genome project has promise to better mankind, and it is our ethical obligation to research it but not exploit it. There is a need to have a morally correct legislation that guides the way science develops this it could lead to our ultimate control of human disease, aging, and death. The project has fantastic benefits for humans. Generations of biologists and researchers will be provided with detailed DNA information that will be helping them to understand the structure, organization, and function of DNA in chromosomes. Some current uses of the genome project include molecular medicine, microbial genomics, risk assessment, anthropology, evolution, and human migration, DNA forensics (identification), agriculture, livestock breeding, and bioprocessing. Genome maps of other species will allow us to compare it to that of a human genome map. It will allow us to understand other species and why they are so different to us. The information we gain from these types of studies will then allow us to develop new technology that will revolutionize future biological explorations.