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    Biotechnology has advanced significantly since the discovery of DNA's structure in 1953. Genetic engineering allowed modification of organisms at the genetic level in the 1970s, resulting in genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Biotechnology has various subspecialties corresponding to its applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and other fields. While biotechnology provides benefits, concerns exist regarding its environmental and ethical impacts. The development of super pests or leakage of living modified organisms could damage the environment. Additionally, use of human embryos in stem cell research raises ethical questions. International agreements like the Cartagena Protocol and Nagoya Protocol aim to regulate biotechnology's transboundary movement and benefit sharing regarding genetic resources.

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    Biotechnology has advanced significantly since the discovery of DNA's structure in 1953. Genetic engineering allowed modification of organisms at the genetic level in the 1970s, resulting in genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Biotechnology has various subspecialties corresponding to its applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and other fields. While biotechnology provides benefits, concerns exist regarding its environmental and ethical impacts. The development of super pests or leakage of living modified organisms could damage the environment. Additionally, use of human embryos in stem cell research raises ethical questions. International agreements like the Cartagena Protocol and Nagoya Protocol aim to regulate biotechnology's transboundary movement and benefit sharing regarding genetic resources.

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    Biotechnology has advanced significantly since the discovery of DNA's structure in 1953. Genetic engineering allowed modification of organisms at the genetic level in the 1970s, resulting in genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Biotechnology has various subspecialties corresponding to its applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and other fields. While biotechnology provides benefits, concerns exist regarding its environmental and ethical impacts. The development of super pests or leakage of living modified organisms could damage the environment. Additionally, use of human embryos in stem cell research raises ethical questions. International agreements like the Cartagena Protocol and Nagoya Protocol aim to regulate biotechnology's transboundary movement and benefit sharing regarding genetic resources.

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    BIOTECHNOLOGY - Sts

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    Biotechnology has advanced significantly since the discovery of DNA's structure in 1953. Genetic engineering allowed modification of organisms at the genetic level in the 1970s, resulting in genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Biotechnology has various subspecialties corresponding to its applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and other fields. While biotechnology provides benefits, concerns exist regarding its environmental and ethical impacts. The development of super pests or leakage of living modified organisms could damage the environment. Additionally, use of human embryos in stem cell research raises ethical questions. International agreements like the Cartagena Protocol and Nagoya Protocol aim to regulate biotechnology's transboundary movement and benefit sharing regarding genetic resources.

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    BIOTECHNOLOGY

    Biotechnology entered its modern era when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins
    and Rosalind Franklin discovered the double helix, twiste-ladder structure of
    deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in 1953. In 1970’s, modification of organisms at the genetic
    level became a reality in what is now known as genetic engineering. DNAs that has been
    isolated from different organisms are incorporated into a single molecule. This results to
    what is known as GMOs (genetically modified organism).
    Biotechnology has subspecialties that correspond to its field of applications. These
    subspecialties are color coded. Red biotechnology is in the area of medicine, pharmacy and
    health. Application of biotechnology in increasing agricultural yield is green biotech. White
    biotechnology on the other hand involves the use of living organisms in industries.
    Nutritional enrichment of food products is assigned the yellow color. Gray biotechnology
    focuses on applications on environmental remediation. The improvement of aquaculture
    and marine food production falls under blue biotechnology.
    Crop modifications for arid land agriculture is brown biotechnology. Biotechnolgy is also
    used in nano technology and this is subspecialty is gold biotechnology. When
    biotechnology‘s purpose is to harm like the development of bioweapons, it is called dark
    biotechnology. There are a lot of legal and moral issues that could arise from biotechnology
    and these are the concerns of violet or purple biotechnology.
    SOCIETAL CONCERNS WITH BIOTECHNOLOG

    Society gets an enormous benefit form biotechnology. Despite the advantages that
    biotechnology provides society, some concerns are being raised. The biggest concerns are
    the environmental effects and the ethical questions of biotechnology. When crops are
    modified to withstand pests and other elements such traits may be passed on to weeds. This
    process could create super pests in the environment. In another scenario, living modified
    organisms (LMOs) might leak out from laboratories or during transport. These organisms
    being foreign to the natural environment can inflict damage to other spceies. Another aspect
    of the environmental threat stems from GMO crops being favored by farmers.
    Since GMO crops give a high yield, farmers will prioritize them over their native crops.
    This might lead to the neglect of the native crops and may ultimaltely result to its
    extinction. On the otherhand, the ethical questions concerns the use of human embryo in
    stem cell research. Many spiritual views consider human embryo as human beings in their
    primary stage of development. People who don’t hold such view consider a human embryo
    as lump of cell and may therefore be used for research.
    INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS ON
    BIOTECHNOLOGY
    Biotechnology is rapidly changing due to advances in scientific and the sophistication of
    instruments as well. The pace at which biotechnology is being developed far exceeds that of
    regulatory changes thus creating issues. As mentioned earlier one of the issues is the
    environmental hazard that living modified organism (LMO) might inflict once they leak out
    during transport. To minimize the possibility of LMOs getting in the natural environment,
    the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was enforced in 2003. It is an international regulatory
    charter for ensuring safe transfer and handling of LMOs during trans-boundary movements.
    . Another issue in biotechnology is ownership. It is possible that an endemic species from
    one nation is the source of DNA material used in developing certain products in another
    country. Who has the right over the profit from the product? The Nagoya Protocol on
    Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from
    their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity addresses this concern. It is a
    2014 international agreement on fair and equitable sharing of benefits from utilization of
    genetic resources.

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