Essay Archive - Genetic Engineering
Genetic Engineering
Bioengineering, or genetic engineering is an altering of genes in a particular
species for a particular outcome. It involves taking genes from their normal
location in one organism and either transferring them elsewhere or putting them
back into the original organism in different combinations. Most biomolecules
exist in low concentrations and as complex, mixed populations which it is not
possible to work efficiently. This problem was solved in 1970 using a bug,
Escherichia coli, a normally innocuous commensal occupant of the human gut. By
inserting a piece of DNA of interest into a vector m....
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