“The Moral, Ethical, Social and Legal Issues Surrounding Genetic Engineering”.

... "THE MORAL, ETHICAL, SOCIAL AND LEGAL ISSUES SURROUNDING GENETIC ENGINEERING" Genetic engineering is a moderately new and rapidly developing technology. It has opened up substantially limitless possibilities for influencing the genetic makeup of organisms. Genetic engineering is the transfer of a gene from one organism, the Donor into another, the Recipient (artificial manipulation) [Ref: 3]. It can lead to many incredibly useful developments in the fields of medicine, agriculture, industry and conservation. However, it also has the potential to produce almost disastrous problems. The techniques involved in genetic engineering are selective breeding of plants or animals. In selective breeding, only those plants or animals with advantageous characteristics are selected for further breeding. The other method is called hybridisation, which is the reproduction between different species. This is cross breeding, which may entail different strains of a species or members of different species in an attempt to combine the most desirable characteristics of

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