Genetic Engineering Essay Examples and Topics

“Farmers are being sued for having GMOs on their property that they did not buy, do not want, will not use and cannot sell.” – Tom Wiley. While researching texts written about food labeling mentioning GMO’s and food cloning, I found authors who published works…

The topic of this essay is new technology emphasizing on the use and role of GMO products. Genetically modified foods are made from plants or animals whose deoxyribonucleic acid has been altered through recombinant DNA technology. These genetically modified organisms are referred to as GMOs…

A huge worry in society today is whether we should be genetically engineering ourselves. Are we crossing the lines when it comes to this dilemma? Genetic engineering is something so impactful that it could make a huge difference to the entire world, but will this…

Everything is evolving. Not just humans and animals, but our food too. Some say it started way before humans even knew about genetics and how to alter genes. Decades before organisms began to be genetically modified, animals were indirectly modified through selective breeding. But now…

Since the structure of DNA was determined in the 1950s, scientists have continued to make great advancements in establishing how the “building blocks of life” are intertwined. In 2003, the Human Genome Project was completed. At the time, the cost for the first individual to…

The following project outlines the laboratory portion of associate degree undergrad genetic science course. The course stressed the understanding of molecular strategies and techniques through isolating, cloning, and expressing a sequence referred to as GAPC (a gene). GAPC has denoted the sequence that codes for…

Introduction Climate change is a global issue threatening the human and ecosystems and the animals that live within the environment. Climate change is already affecting regions of the world and the need for adaptation tools is of major importance as the global climate is occurring…

Rice (Oryza sativa) is a staple food in the Philippines and comprises 35% of an average Filipino’s daily calorie intake. Being an agricultural country, rice is a common crop in the Philippines especially in the northern parts yet the country continues to depend on importing…

During the last decades a lot of breakthrough occurred, leading to predictive gene testing. Some of our hereditary genes can actually be mutated or could be more susceptible to certains diseases. That is why some companies like 23andMe are commercialising kits that could potentially tell…

Introduction United Nations FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization) has predicted that food production must increase by 50% in 2030 and double by 2050 to meet the demands of a growing population. This has to be accomplished sustainably under the challenges of decreasing land availability (due…

Abstract According to the studies a 4-week-long administration of exogenous thyroxine in broiler breeder hens to decline the cold-induced ascites in their offspring suggests that the long-term maternal hyperthyroidism would affect gastrointestinal tract morphology in broiler breeder hens. The birds (70) were fostered in the…

In the 1980’s no one could imagine a world where computer devices were ubiquitous, they thought it was absurd but that science fiction became our reality and we don’t even think about it. Today we are having similar issues but in this case it is…

Imagine eating chemicals instead of food. Not so tasty I would imagine. With GMOs, you may actually be eating chemicals. GMO is an acronym for Genetically Modified Organisms, or organism that have undergone changes in a lab. Some of these changes may include heat resistance,…

Cloning is the process of producing genetically identical individuals of an organism either naturally or artificially. Cloning in biotechnology refers to the process of creating clones of organisms or copies of cells or DNA fragments. The first breakthrough of cloning occurred in the 1990s when…

SSRs are consisting of tandem repeats of one to six (bp). They are found in prokaryotes and eukaryotes (Thiel et al., 2003; Li et al., 2004). They are also known as simple sequence length polymorphisms (Tautz, 1989), microsatellite (Litt and Luty, 1989) short tandem repeats…