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A 6 page discussion of this technology. This paper defines this technology, lists some of its applications, and discusses the controversy surrounding it. Bibliography lists 5 sources
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As controversial as the issue is, genetically modified food is one answer to our worlds growing problems. The worlds population is growing at a phenomenal rate. At the
same time the lands which are available for agricultural production are shrinking. This leaves us with far too many people to feed and less and less area to do
it with. Our traditional, unaltered, agricultural species simply are not capable of producing the volume of food which is needed on the agricultural lands which remain. Genetically altered food
stuffs offer an avenue of meeting our food needs on the limited areas which we have available. Genetic engineering of our
food species is a process through which one or more of the genes of one species is removed and introduced into another species. This process is integral to selective
breeding as well. The selective breeder has at their disposal genetic crosses, selection, mutations, and tissue culture as well as the more advanced technique of genetic transformation. In
tissue culture one of the parents of a cross is only distantly related to the other parent. Complete plants are grown from individual cells and all of the offspring
are genetically identical. Bioengineering is not a new technology. In wasnt until the mid 1970s, however, that scientists discovered a
method of copying and transferring genes from one organism to another (Benson, Arax, and Burstein, 1997). It is a technology that appears to have tremendous potential for the agricultural industry.
Early proponents of bioengineering were eager to point out that an animal feed could be made with bioengineered corn which would contain more oil, a higher protein soybean was
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