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Genetic Engineering useful or Harmful
There are many issues which are associated with genetic engineering such as Cystic Fibrosis etc. Genes now days are being used in many ways for example they are now putting them in Plants to prevent them being destroyed by animals. It is very useful such as if there is a disease in a family and you want to prevent it to spreading the only way to do that is genetic engineering they can modify your genes and stop that disease to occur in your baby. In some ways it is very dangerous for example many people are trying to bring back animals who have been extinct since a long time ago but what will occur when they came back to life will they change the face of the world or ruin it for example imagine a dinosaur roaming here or there in your backyard or mammoths roaming in city. (GE) is also being used in cloning for example it is for those animals that don’t know how to reproduce or are near extinction for example pandas. Genetic engineering is soon goanna be proven but wright it is now it is facing many protests against it for example us corps association declined the cotton production because it was genetically modified

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Genetic engineering is in a development mode it is facing many protests to shut down this program but when it will came out of the development phase we can change the face of the world by bringing extinct animals back to life and finish the threat of endangered animals.

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