Genetic disorders and abnormalities

Genomics has led to many innovations for medical, environmental, legal, and pharmaceutical uses. Developments by the human genome project have led to blood tests that detect genetic disorders and abnormalities in your gene sequence. Technologies in genetic modification have allowed entire species of plants and crops from going extinct, such as bananas in Southeast Asia that have been genetically modified to resist the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) (Wang, 2021). Innovations such as these greatly benefit the biospheres and populations that surround them.

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While there are many benefits to innovations in genomic technology, there can be drawbacks and ethical issues involved. One of the most discussed topics involves the ethics of cloning. In a Utopian world, some have suggested that cloning humans with the highest intellect or greatest athletic abilities would allow for human race to progress “successfully”. Aside from the fact that human experimentation is illegal and unethical, I think human cloning also poses a great threat to human diversity and genetic variation. While many countries have banned human cloning, some governments allow embryo research on stem cells and therapeutic cloning (Francisco, A., 2015). Therapeutic cloning could be used to “grow” organs that are identical to the needs of any person.