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Evaluate the pros and cons of genetic engineering, artificial selection and cloning.
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Introduction: The purpose of this essay is to investigate the title and evaluate the pros and cons of genetic engineering, artificial selection and cloning. Terms. A gene is what determines the inheritance of a particular characteristic, or a group of characteristics, for a particular organism. Such characteristics determined include sex, hair colour and inherited diseases. Alleles are different variants on a particular gene, for example, a gene which determines eye colour will have different alleles which determine different colours. Chromosomes are what carry genes in pairs, and are found in the nucleus of most cells. The actual genetic material which gene are made of is deoxyribonucleic acid, which is more commonly known as DNA. Strands of DNA are made up of combinations of four different bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine, which are grouped into threes to code for an amino acid. Different combinations of these amino acids produce proteins. A single gene...
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