THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE
THE HUMAN GENOME
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Ethics concerns with cloning humans.
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Health concerns about eating genetically modified foods.
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Concerns that we will harvest too much food for the global population.
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Environmental concerns of releasing genetically modified organisms into an ecosystem.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Biotechnology is a constantly evolving field of science. Although it has many benefits-including lowering our environmental footprint, and helping treat disease and illness-it doesn’t come without its disadvantages. The four main concerns revolve around ethical, safety, bioterrorism and environmental issues.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ethical issues that arise from modern biotechnologies include the availability and use of privileged information, potential for ecological harm, access to new drugs and treatments, and the idea of interfering with nature.
Detailed explanation-3: -Religion and Agricultural Biotechnology Biotechnology, in particular, becomes an issue when it entails a discourse on food. Any GM food must meet the general criterion of halalan tayyiban which means “permissible from the shariah perspective (halal) and of good quality (tayyib)”.