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When the DNA from an organism is altered to change appearances and/or functions.
What is Genetic Modification?
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Examples: Human limits improved, genetically modified humans can be used as workers and soldiers, new capabilities improve human progress.
Given an example of a positive to genetic modification or eugenics.
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1953
In what year did Watson and Crick discover the structure of the DNA double helix?
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Eugenics is selective breeding for desirable traits, while genetic modification is the direct changing of an individual organism's DNA.
What is the difference between Eugenics and Genetic Modification?
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Examples: can cause environmental problems, has not been tested enough so it not well know for safety, could reduce genetic diversity
Give an example of a negative to genetic modification.
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The goal was to map the nucleotides contained in a human haploid refrence genome
What was the goal of the Human Genome project?
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