Science of Genetics

There are two sides toe the topic of genetic engineering. One is that it is unnatural and unsafe. The other is that it is f=very beneficial to our society.

In this topic some of the benefits include, efficiency, and more food. In the article "The Growing Pains of a selectively bred chicken," it describes how chickens are unnaturally large. This gives the farmers more money quicker. It also means more food in the grocery stores. However this article's message is that these chickens are suffering. It is describe that these chickens are equal to a 250 lb. child. This creates much  misery for the chicken. These chickens were selectively breed this way. Selective breeding is when the two parents are chosen to mate to make the offspring have superior genetics. Scientists also work with genetic modification which is were genes are isolated and given to another organism for the same reason as selective breading. In genetic modification genes can be transferred from completely different organisms. You would get outcomes that could not be accomplished with selective breeding. With genetic modification many of the outcomes are unknown, as said in layout of benefits and controversies. This could be very dangerous.

I believe that that we should be careful with both these methods of genetic science. Both are dangerous especially genetic modification. In many cases this type of experimentation is unnecessary and abused. If we keep this up we could create something extremely harmful to the environment. I believe the founder of genetics, Gregor Mendel, would be fascinated by what we have accomplished, But even he would be frightened of what may happen.