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Genetic Engineering

Genetic Engineering. By: Leah Palmquist. Outline. Genetic Engineering:  any alteration of genetic material, to make an organism capable of producing new substances or performing new functions. Transgenic: of, pertaining to, or containing a gene or genes transferred from another species.

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Genetic Engineering

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  1. Genetic Engineering By: Leah Palmquist

  2. Outline

  3. Genetic Engineering:  any alteration of genetic material, to make an organism capable of producing new substances or performing new functions. • Transgenic: of, pertaining to, or containing a gene or genes transferred from another species

  4. Plants- Economic Efficiency in Agriculture • Corn - Key material for a variety of processed foods - Major animal feed - In growing demand to make ethanol for use in alternative fuels - Biotech companies are working to create a drought- resistant strain of corn

  5. Plants- Increased Nutritional Value • Rice • 400 million people in the world are effected by vitamin A deficiency • Transgenic strain of rice produces an enzyme which results in increased synthesis of vitamin A • Genes from the common daffodil and bacterium Erwinia uredovora

  6. Use of Genetic Modification in Livestock • Cows • Milk with specific characteristics to supply population deficiencies * High β-caesin levels - cheese production * lactose-free milk - lactose intolerant * milk without lactoglobulin - allergenic consumers * human lactoferrin protein - newborns

  7. Modeling for Human Disease • Fragile X syndrome • Effects 100,000 people in the United States • Currently no treatment available • Symptoms include mental retardation, epilepsy and abnormal body growth • Results from the silencing of one specific gene • Genetically Engineered mice were used as test subjects • A drug was found which corrected many symptoms

  8. Ethical Questions • Slippery Slope argument • Christian Standpoint • Essentialist View • Evolutionary view

  9. Slippery Slope Argument

  10. Christian Standpoint • God is the creator of each individual, who he made in his own image. Genetic engineering is seen by many Christians as “playing God” • So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1:27

  11. Essentialist View vs Evolutionary View • Essentialist view: Humans are special, and have the ability to suffer and feel pain while animals do not. •  Evolutionary View: We are not respecting the animals from which we descended

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