Talk:Recombinant DNA

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what are your views on recombinant DNA technology? is it a good thing or a bad thing?

[edit] good/bad thing

I think it is a very good thing. It helps the worlds food supply, helps some people live (if you don't think so, then I will leave it at helps some people to live better or easier), and vaccinates us against diseases. There really is not a strong arguement against it, but someone might believe it is morally wrong, but there really is not a good scientific arguement against it except the possibility of using Recombinant DNA in malpractice. --toaster 02:26, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't think so far anything bad has happened due to the application of this technology. However, one must be careful to not over-use this technique to the extent of major modifications in the genomes of organisms in which it is used as it may lead to some kind of cumulative mutation which may harm the existance of the organism.

its a very good thing inmy opinion --- Mohtasim --Swati

On Swati's comment: have you stopped to consider that maybe the cumulative mutation may not harm the organism, but rather force a response that changes the orgsanism in a way as to make it further harmful to human beings? --Alpineflame

I think it's helpful technique for next generation due to solve food problem and prevantion of harmful disease

---Mahendra Kumar

The first link posted on this page is broken. Perhaps the item it is referring to has been moved?? RPIfireman 00:39, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Different organisms?

While this is generally true, I don't think it's necessary that the DNA came from different organisms. For example, you could put replace the promoter region of a gene with a constitutive promoter also native to that organism (but naturally found on a different gene). I understand defining "recombinant DNA" to be "unnatural" or "artificial", but I disagree with the definition that it is "different organisms". -Madeleine 21:43, 3 April 2007 (UTC)