The following pages in your textbook provide great background and some of the social and ethical issues associated with these technologies ( pp. 189 – 244). For this assignment, you must write a 4-6 page position paper to illustrate your views on biotechnology and/or cloning. Be sure to provide me with a reference page (this will not count towards your 4-6 page requirement). This paper must be submitted by April 22nd to the dropbox contained within this folder. Remember to only a Microsoft Word document. Let me give you some examples of what could be done:
- It could be illustrated how these technologies may help in the decline of species or help to solve food production problems.
- You can take a positive perspective or a negative perspective on this technology (be sure to illustrate why).
- One could illustrate why certain technologies should be investigated and possibly adopted, while others would be off limits.
- It could be illustrated why these technologies offer hope for human survival.
- You could illustrate how these technologies can be used to bring back former species that have been lost (negative and positive consequences)
- Biofuels could be created to address issues of cleaner fuels and to reduce the dependence on oil. The biofuels do have a negative social and environmental costs in some cases.
- Biotechnologies could be a great benefit to traditional manufacturing technologies, particularly in the area of industrial fibers. Again, there are a host of issues associated with this endeavor.
- Or you could illustrate how this technology could be used to limit human diseases and suffering.
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