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I chose to do my first summary on the website http://www.iptv.org/exploremore…
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Corey Goldstein
I chose to do my first summary on the website http://www.iptv.org/exploremore/ge/. When I first got onto the website there was a poll that I knew I must answer, the question was should human cloning be illegal and I answered no. I answered no because I don’t think we should clone humans because I don’t know what advantages we would get. When I saw the results I was very surprised, 51% of the people said no and the other 49% said yes. I thought the results would be a lot more for no but I was incorrect.
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Biologists are interested in synthetic biology because they want to make a system and it provides a complementary viewpoint from which to consider, analyze, and ultimately understand the living world. They want to see the behavior of molecules and their activity inside cells. Engineers are interested because synthetic biology gives them information, energy and materials.
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Corey Goldstein
I chose to do my first summary on the website http://www.iptv.org/exploremore/ge/. When I first got onto the website there was a poll that I knew I must answer, the question was should human cloning be illegal and I answered no. I answered no because I don’t think we should clone humans because I don’t know what advantages we would get. When I saw the results I was very surprised, 51% of the people said no and the other 49% said yes. I thought the results would be a lot more for no but I was incorrect.
I first read about cloning and the cloning of animals. The website said that doctors believe there are advantages for cloning animals like: saving endangered species and to bring back species that are already extinct. The website also said it would provide medic opportunities. I somewhat agree in cloning animals because bringing back species would be cool and saving extinct species could help if the species produces something that helps humans. The website than said genetically identical species share strengths and weaknesses and if one animal were to get a disease the entire species could wind up died. If that were to happen then there would be no point in cloning if the are all going to die at the result of one animal.
Something interesting I read on this website was about the age of clones. There was an experiment in Japan with two mice, one natural mouse and a cloned mouse. The cloned mouse died before the other one and that find made a concern that a cellular structure having to do with aging might be different in clones. I also read about recombinant DNA. It said that recombinant DNA is the process of taking DNA from one organism and putting it into another and giving it new traits. It can be used to make crops resist against disease and pests. It can also be used to make livestock bigger or smaller; in medicine it can develop drugs, vaccines and reproduce human hormones and proteins.
The second website I chose to write about was http://syntheticbiology.org/. Synthetic biology is the design of biological components and systems that don’t exist. Also it’s the new designing of biological systems that already do exist. The difference between synthetic biology and system biology is, system biology studies biological systems as a whole. It uses tools of modeling and simulation and comparison to experiment. It focuses on natural systems that have a medical significance. Synthetic biology studies on how to make artificial biological systems apposed to new ones. It uses many of the same tools as system biology and some same experimental techniques. Synthetic biology is engineering while system biology is doing more science. The focus is on natural biological systems and using them as a engineered biological system.
Biologists are interested in synthetic biology because they want to make a system and it provides a complementary viewpoint from which to consider, analyze, and ultimately understand the living world. They want to see the behavior of molecules and their activity inside cells. Engineers are interested because synthetic biology gives them information, energy and materials.
