THEO 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Genetic Engineering, Guanine, Adenine
21 Feb 2020
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Genetic engineering: genetic engineering: has made significant advances due to complete mapping of the human genome, shannon and kockler: have itemized important distinctions and raised important ethical issues related to genetic engineering. This is the power, the power to change human life, as our authors state: Mapping: when something is mapped we have a certain amount of control over it: mapping allows us to understand something"s layout, once that happens we can begin to understand the different functions and components and manipulation becomes possible. Genetic engineering: term introduced in the mid 1970s: researchers developed techniques to move genes hereditary factors, segments of dna. From one species to another: genetically modified organisms were the result, genetically modifying humans is fairly new. Genetic transmission: ability to transmit genetic information from one generation to the next. Genetic recombination: capacity for genetic information (e. g. whole genes or parts of chromosomes) to recombine in different configurations and combinations in offspring.
