What is Genetic engineering? Genetic engineering is altering an organism's genes so that it's features, characteristics or behaviour change. Genetic engineers isolate a gene from an organism that encompasses a feature they want to impart to a different organism. It is also known as Genetic modification or recombinant DNA technology. It can be applied to any kind of organism.
Benefits of genetic engineering for human welfare
👉 Genetically modified plants have boosted the financial crisis of farmers but also lead to many technical disagreements.
👉 Genetic engineering can develop stronger, healthier organisms.
👉 It makes considerably safer agricultural habits. It helps to reduce the usage of pesticides and herbicides to crops which helps to decrease the risk of groundwater.
👉 It enables us to develop better food products with a good amount of nutrients.
👉 It improves the growth rate of yields. It helps us to increase the amount of output with a short period.
👉 It allows creating new traits of organisms. Scientists can use DNA recombination to develop different varieties (colours) of nutrition and organisms. Cows are blended to produce a new variety of cow which gives more quantity of milk. Genetic recombination of Poultry helps to increase the rate of growth of muscle tissues.
👉 Organisms can be made resistance to diseases. Mostly plants and animals are threatened by many diseases. By genetic engineering, additional resistance can be added to crops or organisms.
👉 It also allows us to grow crops beyond their normal growing seasons. It even supports growing in low nutritive soil.
👉 It opens a new field of medicine to humans. DNA manipulation is used to treat or cure genetic disorders.
👉 It is used in medicine to develop a variety of treatments. Vaccines, insulin are made possible because of genetic engineering.
Examples of genetically modified foods
👉 Soybeans - Herbicide-resistant gene taken from bacteria inserted into soybean.
👉 Corns - New genomes added into the plant genome
👉 Tomatoes - A reverse copy of the gene responsible for the production of PG enzyme added into the plant genome.
👉 Sugarcane - New genes added into the plant genome.
👉 Rice - "Golden rice" three new genes implanted: two from daffodils and the third from a bacterium.
Advantages of Genetically modified foods
Crops
> Enhanced taste and quality
> Reduced maturation time
> Increased nutrients, yields, and stress tolerance
> Improved resistance to disease, pests, and herbicides.
> New products and growing techniques
Animals
>Increased resistance, productivity, hardiness and feed efficiency
>Better yields of meat, eggs, and milk.
Disadvantages of Genetic Engineering
Economic hazards
> Genetically modified seeds can be legally protected against piracy.
> Farmers have to buy special seeds from companies that have genetically modified crops every year.
> Farmers may not have the financial capacity to buy these seeds.
Environmental hazards
> Genetically modified plants that generate insect toxins may result in the deaths of insects that feed in them and may lead to loss of biodiversity.
> Insects that feed on these crops may develop resistance to the toxins in the crop and may develop resistance to pesticides.
> Herbicide-resistant genetically modified crops could crossbreed with weeds to produce "superweeds".
Conclusion
Hereditary techniques can help to curb certain genetic disorders. This protects the kids from enduring and reduces the expense and emotional distress of taking care of an ill child
Although there are some advantages of formulating a toddler I think the threats are even greater because it may also evacuate a toddler with harmful virus disorders and mutations, moreover, it can also weaken them emotionally by making them feel that they're obligated to perform to the flexibility that they are created for.
Genetic engineering has given us the facility to change the very basis of life on Earth. Biotechnology has few limits, our moral or system. Recombinant deoxyribonucleic technology and cloning are extremely dangerous since they will modify in a very short time.