Genetic engineering should be used to improve nature

Genetic engineering should be used to improve nature

What is genetic engineering? Genetic Engineering is a laboratory technique used by scientist to change the DNA of living organisms. Because genetic engineering will improve quality of food as well as increase agricultural production, provide possibility for cloning organs, and improve modern medicine and our knowledge of certain hereditary disease, therefore, genetic engineering should be used to improve nature.

In recently years, as the technical agriculture is developing rapidly all over the world, genetic engineering is used to modify crops. Scientists use their understanding of genetic makeup of organisms and come up with a process to improve the quality of crops. These advantages can also be beneficial to agricultural business in terms of food production. In addition, with more trees in the world, plants can absorb more CO2 and reduce the threat of global warming.

Opponents of genetic engineering often claim that cloning interferes with nature and anything could go wrong. If a human were cloned it would be identical to someone else in the world and so would not be unique. However, genetic engineering may bring large advantages to us. Now genetic engineering and cloning has been used to clone plants, unicellular organisms, amphibians and simple mammals. Most importantly, scientists have found a way to clone organs such as heart and brain cells. Obviously, the purpose is to use genetic engineering technique to produce genetically identical organs to help heart attack patients by cloning their healthy heart and injecting them into the area of the heart that have been damaged. In addition, they could grow brain cells for the brain damaged and grow spinal cells for the paralyzed.

Finally, disease could be prevented by detecting people/plants/animals that are genetically prone to certain hereditary disease. Infectious diseases can be now treated by implanting genes that code for antiviral proteins specific to each antigen. Most scientists believe that genetic engineering is essential to help future medical discoveries. For example, now biotechnology can people who suffer from sex-linked trait known as Hemophilia. Hemophilia is a condition where the person may die of blood loss when cut or wounded, which is caused by a lack of certain chemical known, which allows the patient to heal from wounds. Scientists may now insert a gene into the patients own DNA causing the patient’s skin to heal. Many lives will be saved through genetic engineering.

In conclusion, genetic engineering can make a significant contribution to the quality of crops, increase of food production and prevent or cure of human disease. If used wisely, it can be beneficial!