Essay On Biogenetic Engineering

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Biogenetic engineering is the ability to change or modify a genome of an organism through the use of biotechnology. We use this in order to add a new gene to an organism that it would originally would not contain. This creates a better suited organism to adapt to any form of change it may have to deal with. Biogenetic engineering works by physically entering the organism’s genome and removing it and inserting the genome into another organism this allows the organism that had received the new trait to express the new code. The steps for genetic engineering is by first finding an organism that contains a trait that is desired, then scientist will extract the DNA, then once the gene has been extracted it goes through gene cloning, this is the process in which the gene is located and copied from the different of genes that had been extracted, and sometimes the desired gene will be modified so that it will be able to perform desirelly within the organism, the transgene, which is the new gene, will be inserted into the organism, once inserted scientist will allow for breeding in order to perfect the desired gene. Biogenetic engineering allows for the manual transport of genes from one organism to the next. The genes that we use for bioengineering are beneficial since we are able to perfect this genes for an unlimited amount of usage. Bioengineering also allows a single or a few desirable genes to be inserted into an organism rather than breeding which has at times undesirable traits that might not be as beneficial to the organism as the gene that is being inserted manually in bioengineering.
Biogenetic engineering has no restrictions like normal breeding an example would be when a farmer has a yellow chicken and it hatches a white ch...

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Biogenetic engineering can be connected to the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley by that it shows the negative impacts of genetic modifications. In chapter 1 Huxley describes the way that social predestination was a major part of the society since it determined what the different types of embryos were going to be doing as they started to mature. The Bokanovsky Process, a process that increases the amount of babies that are born by shocking the embryo so that it can produce 96 identical in which then will create 96 identical human beings. (SparkNotes) This process which Huxley calls the Bokanovsky Process is a major form biogenetic engineering given the fact that the process includes the choosing of which genes, or in this case embryos, underwent this process while embryos which were classified to be Alphas or Betas hadn’t gone through this process.

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