GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM USES OF GMOS Human Gene

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GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM

GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM

USES OF GMO’S • Human Gene Therapy • Agricultural Genetic Engineering • Improvement in

USES OF GMO’S • Human Gene Therapy • Agricultural Genetic Engineering • Improvement in Food Quality Traits • Research Use • Microbes

HUMAN GENE THERAPY • Gene therapy is a collection of methods that allow correction

HUMAN GENE THERAPY • Gene therapy is a collection of methods that allow correction of a gene defect that has been diagnose in a embryo. Gene are inserted into a individual cells and tissues to treat a disease. • Correction of genetic disease involve delivery of normal gene into a individual or a embryo to take over the function and compensate for the non-functional gene.

AGRICULTURAL GENETIC ENGINEERING • Crop Improvement i. GM food crops (DNA modification using genetic

AGRICULTURAL GENETIC ENGINEERING • Crop Improvement i. GM food crops (DNA modification using genetic engineering techniques) ii. Resistance against environment, disease, chemical treatment iii. Improvement in Non-food crops pharmaceutical agents, biofuels • Genetically Engineered Traits a) Herbicide resistance b) Insect resistance c) Virus resistance d) Delay fruit ripening e) Pollen control • Abiotic Stress Control (cold and drought tolerance crops)

IMPROVEMENT IN FOOD QUALITY TRAITS • Food produced from GM organisms are often referred

IMPROVEMENT IN FOOD QUALITY TRAITS • Food produced from GM organisms are often referred as GM food. • GM food are developed and marketed due to some perceived advantage either to producer or consumer of these food. • GM food offer low price and greater benefit (durability and nutritional value) • GM seed developer wanted their product to be accepted by producers that bring direct benefit to farmer (food industry).

RESEARCH USE OF GMO’S • Safe to grow (crop grow as same as non-GMO’s).

RESEARCH USE OF GMO’S • Safe to grow (crop grow as same as non-GMO’s). • Safe to environment and beneficial insects • More than 90 government bodies globally review and approve GMO’s. • GMO’s has been grown and imported by 70 countries since 1996.

GMO AND ETHICAL ISSUES • Genetic modification of organisms can have unpredictable results when

GMO AND ETHICAL ISSUES • Genetic modification of organisms can have unpredictable results when such organisms are introduced in ecosystem. • The usage of living organism for public services like food and medicine, also has created problems with patents granted for same. • There is growing public anger that certain companies are being granted patents for products and technologies that make use of the genetic material, plant and other genetic resources that have a long being identified, developed and used by famers.

ECONOMIC ISSUES • Risk of patent enforcement which may oblique farmers may to depend

ECONOMIC ISSUES • Risk of patent enforcement which may oblique farmers may to depend on genetic engineering companies such as Monsanto for strains when their crops are pollinated • Patenting new plants varieties will raise the price of seed so high that small farmers will not able to afford seed for GM crops. Thus winding the gap between the wealthy and poor.