History of the Human Genome Project
History of the Human Genome Project
The human genome project was started in with its conception in the mid 1980’s. The United States government was responsible for all the formal planning and its development. The most outstanding goal for the project is to determine the entire nucleotide sequence of the human DNA. This consists of an estimated 50,00 to 100,000genes within one human genome. The process of the entire has required developing new technology in the field of genetics. From the inception of the project it was clear that new discoveries that the project would bring new breakthroughs and new problems.
There are new and interesting controversies with the human genome project. The most important to me is the choice of the possibility of choosing the best of your genes to make your child the greatest it can be. Some of the concerns with this issue are having all these super babies around is that our world will no longer be natural and more man made than in the hands of god to choose the way our children look, think, and how successful they are in life. Also with this the life expectancy of these new super babies will increase because they will have the best of everything form there parents and will not have any chance of ding young form a natural cause such as heart disease or cancer. My opinion on this very concerning issue is that only a select few should be able to choose e there children’s genetic information. The people who should be able to choose their kids genetic information is the people who can not have a normal child unless their genetic information is change in their kid. The reasoning behind this is that I believe the every married couple should be able to have a normal child because the greatest thing in life I think is seeing your perfect little child grow up to became a young man or woman. On the other hand I think people who now that now they can have a normal should be outlawed to use this information to make a super baby and let god do his work and bring them there little bundle of joy. The worst thing with being able to choose your child’s genetic makeup is being able to now everything your child will do in his lifetime and that ruins the whole joy of...