Asmaa Bykbane Professor Jacquelyn Blain English 101, section LC47 5 December 2016 Project: Genetic Engineering Genetic engineering is an important topic in our era, and has recently become one of the fastest developing fields of science. With this new technology, people are being able to fix and do things that were impossible in the past. Genetic engineering is a wild technique that covers so many fields beginning with modifying food down to human reproduction, which makes it an interesting topic to discover and know more about it. Genetic engineering is the process of removing a gene from one organism and inserting it into another, which helps the receiver gain new abilities from the donor that the receiver didn’t have before. This process gives scientists the tools to make changes in living things, and create new species. In agriculture we are now able to produce more food: "GM soybeans and corn, which are widely grown in North and South America....also produce large aggregate welfare gains, currently estimated at $5 billion per year at the global level. Huge benefits are also projected for future GM crops that are more tolerant to drought or more efficient in nutrient use"(Qaim). We are able now to produce more agriculture crops in a short time and with less effort than before. Genetic engineering technology has dramatically reduced the time required for the development of new commercial varieties of crops. Some investigators have suggested that the use of genetic markers could reduce the usual 10-15-year breeding cycles to only 2-3 years. Genetic engineering is rapidly replacing traditional plant
Asmaa Bykbane Professor Jacquelyn Blain English 101, section LC47 5 December 2016 Project: Genetic Engineering Genetic engineering is an important topic in our era, and has recently become one of the fastest developing fields of science. With this new technology, people are being able to fix and do things that were impossible in the past. Genetic engineering is a wild technique that covers so many fields beginning with modifying food down to human reproduction, which makes it an interesting topic to discover and know more about it. Genetic engineering is the process of removing a gene from one organism and inserting it into another, which helps the receiver gain new abilities from the donor that the receiver didn’t have before. This process gives scientists the tools to make changes in living things, and create new species. In agriculture we are now able to produce more food: "GM soybeans and corn, which are widely grown in North and South America....also produce large aggregate welfare gains, currently estimated at $5 billion per year at the global level. Huge benefits are also projected for future GM crops that are more tolerant to drought or more efficient in nutrient use"(Qaim). We are able now to produce more agriculture crops in a short time and with less effort than before. Genetic engineering technology has dramatically reduced the time required for the development of new commercial varieties of crops. Some investigators have suggested that the use of genetic markers could reduce the usual 10-15-year breeding cycles to only 2-3 years. Genetic engineering is rapidly replacing traditional plant
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