Genetic pollution

to decrease yields and increase the need to rely on agricultural chemicals (Smith, “Genetically Modified…”). Obviously, these genetically modified crops are doing more harm than good. Not only are these developing countries becoming dependent on genetic engineering, but it is actually decreasing their crop yield.…

altered through genetic engineering so the DNA of the organism has one or more new genes when produced. This usually increases the quality and/or quantity of a product/organism and a few other factors. Many people are concerned on whether or not GMOs are actually beneficial for society, and are questioning if big corporations such as Monsanto should continue pushing genetically modified crops and animals to our people. GMO’s are particularly concerning to society due to the…

Sewing Discord: To what effect will two controversial events influence when, if ever, Golden Rice go into distribution? Subject Area: World Studies: Science, Technology and Sociology Word Count: 3945 Session: May 2016 Acknowledgements I would like to thank my mentor, Mr. McLaughlin, for his valuable and constructive suggestions during the planning and developing of this essay and for taking the time to help me with this work. I would also like to thank Ms. Emma Reed for helping to…

a renowned doctor who specializes in nutrition, attests that, in the United States an increasing amount of genetically modified foods are being added to the food supply without the knowledge of the Americans consuming them. The effects of these genetic modifications have been revealed to be “flawed” and potentially dangerous to consumers (Mercola). Mercola illustrates the large gray area that exists in the food industry, especially with GMOs and the few restrictions placed on them. As of today,…

Invasive species are a bigger problem than they are viewed as. This is shown through Jennifer Klos’ article The Threat of Invasive Species. Invasive species are organisms that cause some kind of destruction to both the ecosystem and the economy, “harmful not because of what they are,but where they happen to be” (Klos.1). As stated before, it isn’t their faults. The main cause for invasive species are humans. Humans that are selfish and don’t think of the consequences of bringing a foreign…

“I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and convulsive motion agitated its limbs […] His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful” (Shelley 287). In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein gives life to a creature he had spliced together from the remains of bodies in the local cemetery. And just as Victor Frankenstein spliced together his monster, scientists around the globe are splicing together DNA sequences from multiple…

New technological advances occur every day. These advances have begun to spill into most everything in modern society, such as agriculture, consumer health, the environment, food production, medicine, and much more. One of these advances is genetic engineering and the organisms that scientists genetically engineer called genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Today, there are many controversies over GMOs and whether or not they are good for society due to the process and possible repercussions…

The excitement of the residents of the Love Canal has not lasted too long. More terrible news ensued. People living far away from the pollution center were beginning to worry about their own safety. In November 1978, more than 200 compounds were found in the landfill site of which about 200 tons contained hazardous dioxin Dioxin [2, 3, 7, and 8 tetrachlorodibenzoparadioxin (TCDD)], a highly toxic carcinogen. The identification of dioxins made the inhabitant extremely panic (Philips et al., 2007)…

Radioactive pollution is affecting our oceans greatly today. There are numerous reasons why radioactivity and radiation are bad for both you and the environment. Radiation consists of several particles, gamma rays, alpha particles, and other elements that can easily penetrate the human body. When they make their way into your body the biological cells which make up your body are damaged and may decompose, cause fatal cancers, and or genetic defects in future offspring. The more radiation one is…

Since DNA was discovered in 1935, humankind has made incredible bounds in the field of genetics. Recently scientists from the National Taiwan University's Department of Animal Science and Technology have discovered a way to make pigs glow in the dark by using the genetic material of a jellyfish. What they did was extract the genetic material of a jellyfish and inject it into the embryos of pigs in the hopes that the pigs would be born green, and they were. The three pigs that they were…