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Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Satirical Essay That Argues against Using Genetics to Create Human Beings', 1.
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To Play or Not to Play... God?
By: Carly Pitney
It is now the twenty-first century and humanity has come a long way from Galileo's telescope and Newton's Law of Gravity. We have made enormous leaps and bounds in scientific fields, especially genetics. We have split the atom; discovered the gene that causes leprosy; cloned animals; created a real cowboy, a half human, half cow foetus; and are now on the verge of 'improving' the average human by completely redesigning it into whatever we want.
Perhaps we should start with a simple definition: genetics is a specialized field of science tha…

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