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Cracking Your Genetic Code

Published on Nov 23, 2015

Effects of Genetic Engineering

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

CRACKING YOUR GENETIC CODE

A GENOME IS

AN ORGANISM'S COMPLETE SET OF DNA, INCLUDING ITS GENES
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DEOXYRIBOSE NUCLEIC ACID
consists of the following nucleotides:
• Adenine
• Thymine
• Guanine
• Cytosine

ONE'S GENOTYPE COULD SHOW

MUTATIONS IN CELLS, LEADING TO THE DISCOVERY OF POTENTIAL DISEASES
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AND TRAITS THAT COULD BE PASSED

TO ONE'S OFFSPRING
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THIS KNOWLEDGE HAS SEVERAL ADVANTAGES SUCH AS:

  • Improvement on one's everyday activities based on predictions
  • Cures can be identified for former diseases
  • "Personalized medicine" can be made
  • A new, healthier generation would evolve

HOWEVER, THERE ARE MANY CONSEQUENCES..

  • If insurance companies find it out, they wouldn't want to be with you
  • Parents could prevent their kids from a 'good childhood' because of paranoia
  • Could lead to constant stress and depression over the subject
  • Relationship issues could evolve
  • Feeling separated and different from the world
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ARE THE RISKS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Great enough to justify banning techniques?
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YES

Tell others of the extreme risks of genetic engineering
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Don't put yourself in this position...

BE THIS GUY

Keep your genome a secret.

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