Science and technology are the powerful engine to this century. Technology and sciences were designed by people to overcome problems and make life easier and more efficient. However efficiency and speed don’t always positively correlate with safety. In addition that they might result in destruction and damage. The damage of the scientific advancement in Oryx and Crake was demonstrated and portrayed in the pigoons, which are biological organ factories and as was mentioned in lecture they are made for xenotransplantation. This process grows an organ made of similar cells to humans and then transplant it in the patient. This view on animals makes us think of them unethically and ignore their great role in the ecosystem. Animals play an important …show more content…
Since traits are encoded in genes, Bioengineering uses genes from different creatures and cut and pastes in DNA sequences to reach a desired trait. It was mentioned in class the square tomatoes to solve the boxing problems, however the result that square tomatoes were testales tasteless, which explains Atwood's idea that science is not perfect. However a study was done in South Africa on rats that were fed genetically modified ( GM) tomatoes in one section and genetically modified potatoes in another to discover the effect of genetic engineering on different plants in the digestive system(Smith 5). However the results were not pleasing, the rats that ate tomatoes developed stomach severe lesions and seven out of forty rats died for unexplained tumor ( smith 7). On the other side the group of rats that was fed the GM potatoes grew precancerous cells, had damaged immunity and slow development of the brain( Smith 9). Scientist also searched for data about the harm of GM crops in humans and how GM agriculture is still growing in several counties after the …show more content…
This happened ,because inserting foreign gene in an existing DNA sample might damage the parental DNA by interference with gene expression ( Smith 15). However a different analytic study and data were collected on European honeybee, Apis mellifera, which is an important pollinator to a lot of plants in Europe ( Fairbrother, et al. 3 ). In 2006 a report was made about thousands of bees being lost and colonies are collapsing, therefore scientists wanted to take a closer look to analyse the problem.Scientists suggested a range of causes to this loss of bees to name a few, pesticides, genetically modified plants, habitat fragmentation as was studied in the monarch butterflies, and introduced diseases or predators( Fairbrother, et al 4). After the analysis it was found that Neonicotinoid insecticides are the primary cause of their death, which are a neurotoxic drugs that lead to paralysis and death of insects for crops protection( Fairbrother, et al 5). The biological mechanism behind it is that acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), blocking the neural receptors and causing paralysis and death to insects. The secondary cause of death was GM food, which is engineered to be against pests attacks, therefore bees were poisoned for our food to be safe and for farmers to get profits and increase their volume of production as was mentioned by professor Rod