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This is an abstract of the seven web sites that I went to for the Bio Science Webboard for the conference topic “Genetic Engineering”. For the first site I chose the conference on genetic engineering at http://www.anth.org/ifgene/holdrege.htm. I thought the site to be informative. It mainly discussed the issue on transgenic rice. Scientist feel that the rice would help Asians because of the high rate of vitamin A. They feel that the rice would help since it has a Beta-carotene which is a precursor of vitamin A. Given that the body could produce vitamin A. This site provided me with information that I wasn’t aware of before. I didn’t know that so many Asians were deficient in vitamin A. I don’t feel that the scientist are moving too fast, I think that they are just trying to help the Asians. No one else thought about the beta-carotene concept to help.People who are in countries were there is less food available will eat anything. They don’t really understand the concept of nutrition because they have never been taught. I don’t think they care if the food was planted in a traditional crop style or genetically engineered as long as they get it. For conference two I visited the site http://www.emagazine.com/july-august_1999/0799curr_terminator.html. This site focused on the issue of a newly-patented seed technology that is set to be on the market by the year 2005. This new technology is to the U.S Department of Agriculture as TPS. TPS stands for Technology Protection System. To many farmers this new technology is known as Terminators because of the impotence of the seeds. This site provided me with information that I wasn’t aware of, I thought this site was very informative, I never that the USDA was coming up with such an idea to make seeds sterile. By reading the article the incorporation of the terminator gene is warranted to protect a company’s property.
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