GENETIC MANIPULATION

Genetic Manipulation



Genetic Manipulation

Essay 1

Parallel to the deciphering of the universal genetic code, biologists and chemists began in the sixties to manipulate the hereditary information in accordance with purposes increased their knowledge. Manipulation of genetic material, known as recombinant DNA technology was first used in 1973 by Stanley Cohen of Stanford University in California.

Gattaca

Gattaca is a good example for supporting out topic. This movie is In the near future, where genetic advances now allow giving birth to perfect beings. In a future world, we can choose the genotype of children. In this highly technological society that practices the eugenics scale, the gametes of the parents are screened and selected to design in vitro children with the fewest defects and maximum benefits. Although this is officially banned, companies and employers use to test DNA discreet to select their employees; those conceived naturally find themselves, in fact, relegated to menial tasks. This film is a futuristic fable that addresses the eugenics, and is part of a lengthy series of films and novels describing future worlds terrifying because too perfect, as a happy unsustainable. Gattaca is a center for study and research space for people to genetic impeccable. Jerome, genetically suitable candidate, see his life destroyed by an accident while Vincent, natural child, so the gene pool "imperfect", dreams of going to space. Each will allow the other to get what he wants and overcome the laws of Gattaca (Morgan, 2003).

Oryx and Crake

The Crakers think the same, and have no separate personality, no concepts of lies/sin/stealing. The Crakers still had thinking skills but they were not very advanced. Crake was able to manufacture skills but the crakers would not be able to have these advanced thinking skills to create other hybrids. They were better but a more simple form of humans. They were modeled after Crake's genetics, because he was different from other humans. The role of technology in constructing human “identity”; role of nature: Technology is unable to create humans, but the Crakers are becoming more human as they spend more time in nature. Even though, the Crakers were bred from technology, natured caused them to have more humanistic view/ideas. Crakers would not exist without technology (Smiley, 2005). Part of what makes humans human is their ability to create things (hybrids or even the wheel). Humans want to make things perfect (trying to improve nature when it is unnecessary).

Dawn by Butler Octavia

In Dawn the complete story is based upon the manipulation of genes and taking the humans and showing them to sleep for about 250 years. This story highlights some of the major events that converge through manipulating of human genes. The example for this notion is that the humans are send into sleeping pods where they sleep for 250eyars. However, the scenario which these few humans are into creates an environment in which they will get afraid by themselves for being humans, as they are in the world of aliens. Thus, this is another event takes place that is manipulation ...