6.7 Making Choices About Technology

Question 1

What are the advantages of cloning and genetic engineering?

Answer 1

Several medicine have been produced, animals with advantageous characteristics e.g. race horses, people with genetic disorders can be treated

Question 2

What are the disadvantages of cloning and genetic engineering?

Answer 2

Worry about long term effects of GM crops on health, unethical, accidentally introducing new genes, insects which are not pests may be killed by pesticide