Designer Baby Research Paper

Designer baby is a weird term used to describe a baby who has been genetically modified or picked to have certain genes over others. In today’s consumer society, this science has an attractive appearance.This sounds questionable, or out of reach, but technology is highly capable of creating them and has process arranged. Designer babies are created through multiple genetic processes in which may be difficult to understand. A good start is with the process. Before Gene Splicing can occur to create the desired traits, Gel Electrophoresis is done to show the current DNA, it’s traits, and any potential mutations. It is displayed by separating and staining genes through process using an electric field which separates shorter DNA from longer DNA. …show more content…
The Human Genome Project, was created for the sole purpose of international scientific research, with the goal of determining the sequence of nucleotide base pairs that make up the human DNA, identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional standpoint. With this research they were able to start on Gene Therapy. Gene Therapy is the transplant of normal genes into cells in the place of missing or defective ones in order to correct genetic disorders. In 1986 U.S. scientists held meetings in Santa Fe, and New Mexico where they outlined plans to sequence the entire human genome, there was initially two reasons why they started this project. 1; they had thought it was the best way to understand the genetic changes that cause cancer, 2; the U.S. department of energy needed an efficient way of studying long-term DNA damage caused by radiation in particular, from the atom bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, the result was The Human Genome Project. The Human Genome Project helped us learn that are genome contains about 3.2 billion A, C, G, and T bases- the molecule that helps make up the DNA code. An average sized gene has about 3,000 of these bases, though some genes are smaller and some much bigger. The biggest known human gene Dystrophin, is made up of 2.4 million bases. The Human Genome Project gave us more information about chromosomes, it turns out that chromosome 1 contains the most genes- 3,168, while the Y chromosome has the fewest- about 344. With this information we can use our knowledge about Gene Therapy to figure out which genes we need or want to take out and replace with something better. The Human Genome Project helped us learn about what genes are what and what their function is and if it's possible to replace that gene with another. You can never have something without possible consequences

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Designer Babies Research Paper