What if you had the ability to choose if your children had gills or not!?!? What if you could choose to have your children be immune to all diseases? despite what you think, this is not as science fiction as it sounds.
This article that we read talked about how people have been taking plants and genetically modifying them so they can do amazing things like survive in harsh environments and increase the resources that plant produces. A few things that i thought were really interesting about this article are that people have changed the physical properties of a certain rice plant and made it so that it can survive under water for up to two weeks. I also read in this article that two different breeds of corn can be so different that the relationship between humans and chimps are closer than the relationship between the breeds of corn.
Molecular breeding and genetic modification are a very controversial topic and a lot of people think it is very wrong. But I for one think that this is one of the best things i have heard of(in science). I mean who wouldn't wanna change life for the better? I am definitely on the genetic modification train.
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