Biogenetics - The Dangers of Biogenetically Engineered Organisms :: Biology Environment Ecology Essays

Biogenetics - The Dangers of Biogenetically Engineered Organisms As I sit here at my desk in crusade of my estimator contemplating what to write close, I look out of the window and watch the bees at work around the large bush that has flowered in front of my house.They busily go from one tiny flower to the next feeling for nectar and exchanging pollen. Occasionally one leave behind fly a route presumptively to inform other bees at the hive about the location and teemingness of this bush.More bees arrive to help in the gathering of nectar while others get out to deliver their bounty. Each bee is an integral part of a hive, a biologic system.Each bee is alike an important part of a larger system, an ecosystem and in manoeuvre distri thoively ecosystem is part of a grand system, the environment that we live in, also known as the planet Earth.Odd that much(prenominal) tiny small creatures, who appear oblivious to all but the flowers they are buzzing, could be p art of such a large system.Even more amazing is the effect they have on this system.If not for the bees more than 30% of the plants and vegetables we take for granted would never be able to reproduce.In turn many of the animals we depend on for food, clothing, companionship and admire would never survive.If the animal that we rely on died then most assuredly we, or most of us, would die in a matter of months.Now that little creature looks much larger and more important to me than it did just 5 minutes ago. Odd how such a small factor do-nothing have such a large effect on an equation isnt it? Throughout the world this very important and delicate chemical equilibrium goes on, as do millions of others every day each affecting the other and yet at the end of the day they manage to balance each other out.As educated and well-informed people many times we may look at a system and think that we understand its intricacies but do we?And even if we do, do we have the right to change the way it works just to suit our needs?This is the question I will address in this paper and hopefully get you, the reader, to think about what we as a collective are doing and are about to do with the knowledge that we posses.