Pages

Friday 17 February 2012


Genome/Gene Therapy

Gene therapy is the use of DNA for experimental technique that treats or prevents diseases. I thought at first great treats diseases but then it showed that it was experimental, that got me scared. Imagine they have DNA and they try to prevent a disease but then it goes completely into the opposite direction because it is experimental. Maybe they were doing that on a real life person. What if they died because of that?

Maybe they are testing this on animals, maybe not but if they are do they give the animal a disease and then cure it? I think that is what they are actually doing. Although this might be good, this could be just as bad. When I think of experimental, I think that anything could happen, ANYTHING. This might interact with us and make a new disease. Imagine a new disease. Do we really need that? No we do not.                                       So tell me what you think about it.

Thursday 9 February 2012

Cloning plants
Have you ever thought that plants are cloned? I have never thought of it that way until someone told me. Sure they might not be cloned in a lab but for a new plant to grow it gets cloned. Its not like the seed has a completely different "DNA". The particles in the seed are "clones" and when they grow they are basically" clones". Sorry i did not write a lot.


If you want to look into it more check out this website.

http://www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au/biotec/cloneplant.html