3. What is GMO? Genetically Modified Organisms are those organisms which are genetically engineered to satisfy the needs of the People around the Globe. It is a technology designed to augment the food shortage. Organisms whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering and has two subsets namely: 1)Transgenic-its DNA originated from different species; 2).Cisgenic-contain no DNA from other species.
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8. The principal investigators, mostly geneticists and molecular biologists, found that individuals with Myotonic Dystrophy have a longer-than-usual sequence of repeating base pairs at a specific site on chromosome 19.
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10. Somatic gene therapy is specific for the patient and is not transferred to the offspring, unlike gene therapy where progenies are the beneficiaries of the technology.
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12. How many scientist have far greater moral sensitivity to their responsibilities to the future generation of mankind?
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14. But the success of the results could also lie in our hands. In real life, things aren’t always good or progressive for there are two sides in the coin. Sometimes there are irregularities which leads to some undesirable results.
