Genetically Modified Organisms Research Paper

Genetically modified organisms or as most of us know them by GMOs. These are organisms where a gene is purposely changed or added artificially to make it more appealing. Humans have been genetically enhancing anything we can. Many people are for GMOs while others are against it. An estimated 70% of all of our food supply contain at least one genetically modified organism. Therefor if you were against it there is really no way of running away from them. I think GMOs do more good then harm. Selective breeding it a form of genetic modification. That being said all of our purebred dogs that we love so much are a form of genetic modification, but instead of adding foreign genes we just pick and choose with what we have until we get it right. This way genetically modified crops are basically the same thing but we are expanding our materials. Humans have always modified plants using what resources they had. They took a weak little grass and modified it with what they had to get the corn we have know. If we were not able to genetically modify plants would we be
According to Chelsea Powell, a PhD student at Harvard University, believes that the key step of genetic modification are identifying a trait of interest, isolating that trait, inserting that trait into the desired organism and finally insuring that the organism grows. I agree with her on this. To modify the organism for the purpose that you are wanting you need one thing to add not a mixture of things to see what works. Once you find the gene that you need you have to extract it. Adding it into the right spot to get your desired trait. The amount of science that is put into genetic modification is unfathomable. The number of times people have failed and tried again is insane. Someone had an idea and with science they were able to complete it. This just goes to show that science is one of the best commodities man kind