Talk:Recombinant DNA/Comments

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[edit] The issue with recombinants

The idea of genetic engineering, recombinant DNA and "Chimeric" processes are extremely interesting due to their applications in ecology, humanitarian issues and commerce; imagine if a wheat plant was engineered to be able to grow on beaches and in very harsh conditions - there would be no shortage of food nor malnutrition and starvation. However, there are also bad points to this : we don't know the long term effects. The genetically altered plant could contain toxins, or other molecules which develop over the course the organism and culminate towards disease or eventual death.

Please, regardless of the ethical issues -- expand the foundations of this topic, and then reference any ethical problems with factual articles or reasoned debates. Reference all. ♥♥ ΜÏΠЄSΓRΘΠ€ ♥♥ ^{slurp me!} 08:38, 17 May 2007 (UTC)