Genetic Engineering DBQ

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Genetic engineering used to be the thing the scientists experimented on plants and animals but now humans. I dont think its right to change the way people live life just to either look a little better or be a little smarter. It's okay in some situations, for instance when someone has really bad pain and it is never ending. We need something to fix it that is not pain killers. Instead we should just have surgery and never feel that amount of pain again but just enough pain to the point where we don't hurt yourself without knowing it (Doc 2).

There was a survey to know what people think about genetic engineering. 83% of the people asked in the survey said that making a baby more intelligent by genetic modifications was bad and was taking medical

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