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media type="youtube" key="P_UoReSgz84" height="355" width="425" Genetic Engineering is very helpful when a farmer wants to improve his crop's quality. He is able to adapt plants to be able to withstand the elements, like droughts, rainy periods, and other weather conditions. He can also make the plants have better quality. The farmer could take genes from a plant that did really well and put into the seeds of another plant, so that plant's seeds will have close to the same qualities that the really good plant had, and it would continue throughout generations. If there was a particular disease in his crop, the farmer could single out these diseased plants and make the new plants immune to disease.

Genetic Engineering can also be beneficial to humans and animals by altering them to not get serious diseases or making them less susceptible to birth defects. With Genetic Engineering, humans and animals would be better able to survive and live longer. Scientist are able to find out how to make humans perfect right when they come out their mother. For example, scientists have already created a gene that can help flounder resist cold so that they can survive longer. The same thing can be done for tomatoes, so that they don't frost for a longer time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering



Genetic Engineering clones and changes the DNA of living organisms. It also is found to improve crop technology. Genetic Engineering takes pieces of chromosomes from different organisms that can be inserted into a plasmid. The steps of Genetic Engineering are, They use an enzyme to cut the insulin gene out of the chromosome then Plasmids are removed from bacterial cells. Human insulin genes are then inserted into each plasmid which was removed from the bacterial cells. The bacteria with the insulin gene are then multiplied to produce a tiny volume of insulin. Genetic engineering is also used for substances that are expensive and very hard to produce like insulin for people with diabetes and antibiotics and also vaccines for different diseases. http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/standard/biology/biotechnology/reprogramming_microbes_rev2.shtml