what is genetic engeeneering?
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Genetic engineering is the manipulation of the DNA of one organism by the introduction of a gene from another organism. After adding the gene, the gene starts functioning normally and we get the desired characteristics we want in that organism.\nThe gene can be introduced by 'carriers' or vectors- like viruses, bacteria or a spray of liposomes.
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Great stuff going on right now having to do with developmental genes (like Hox genes).  You may know this as "Evo Devo" or evolutionary developmental biology.\n\nCheck out the book "Endless Forms Most Beautiful," by Sean Carroll.  He also gives ideas for research and new fields, lots of peer-reviewed papers.\n\nI just read it this Fall, it was great.
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Transformation\nNucleotides\nBase
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Genetic engineering, genetic modification (GM) and gene splicing are terms for the process of manipulating genes, usually outside the organism's natural reproductive process.\n\nIt involves the isolation, manipulation and reintroduction of DNA into cells or model organisms, usually to express a protein. The aim is to introduce new characteristics or attributes physiologically or physically, such as making a crop resistant to a herbicide, introducing a novel trait, or producing a new protein or enzyme,along with altering the organism to produce more of certain traits. Examples can include the production of human insulin through the use of modified bacteria, the production of erythropoietin in Chinese Hamster Ovary cells, and the production of new types of experimental mice such as the OncoMouse (cancer mouse) for research, through genetic redesign.\n\nSince a protein is specified by a segment of DNA called a gene, future versions of that protein can be modified by changing the gene's underlying DNA. One way to do this is to isolate the piece of DNA containing the gene, precisely cut the gene out, and then reintroduce (splice) the gene into a different DNA segment. Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Smith received the 1978 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their isolation of restriction endonucleases, which are able to cut DNA at specific sites. Together with ligase, which can join fragments of DNA together, restriction enzymes formed the initial basis of recombinant DNA technology.\n\nApplications --- :\n\nThe first Genetically Engineered drug was human insulin approved by the USA's FDA in 1982. Another early application of genetic engineering was to create human growth hormone as replacement for a drug that was previously extracted from human cadavers. In 1986 the FDA approved the first genetically engineered vaccine for humans, for hepatitis B. Since these early uses of the technology in medicine, the use of GE has expanded to supply many drugs and vaccines.\n\nOne of the best known applications of genetic engineering is that you can probilize the outcome of offspring. There are potentially momentous biotechnological applications of GM, for example oral vaccines produced naturally in fruit, at very low cost.\n\nA radical ambition of some groups is human enhancement via genetics, eventually by molecular engineering. See also: transhumanism.\n\nGenetic engineering and research\nAlthough there has been a tremendous revolution in the biological sciences in the past twenty years, there is still a great deal that remains to be discovered. The completion of the sequencing of the human genome, as well as the genomes of most agriculturally and scientifically important plants and animals, has increased the possibilities of genetic research immeasurably. Expedient and inexpensive access to comprehensive genetic data has become a reality with billions of sequenced nucleotides already online and annotated. Now that the rapid sequencing of arbitrarily large genomes has become a simple, if not trivial affair, a much greater challenge will be elucidating function of the extraordinarily complex web of interacting proteins, dubbed the proteome, that constitutes and powers all living things. Genetic engineering has become the gold standard in protein research, and major research progress has been made using a wide variety of techniques, including:\n\nLoss of function, such as in a knockout experiment, in which an organism is engineered to lack the activity of one or more genes. This allows the experimenter to analyze the defects caused by this mutation, and can be considerably useful in unearthing the function of a gene. It is used especially frequently in developmental biology. A knockout experiment involves the creation and manipulation of a DNA construct in vitro, which, in a simple knockout, consists of a copy of the desired gene which has been slightly altered such as to cripple its function. The construct is then taken up by
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Its huge! Genetic engineering is a very dynamic and versatile field...its not only a bio-medical field, but it is used in agriculture, research, microbiology, and so much more. I would recommend talking to a school counselor or advisor, perhaps even a biology teacher. They will tell you more about the field.
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Sure, \ntry www.genetic-programming.com It's Dr Koza's page.... you'll need some time to find the information.
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The study of genetics allows us to predict the traits that our offspring will inherit from their parents.  This allows parents to make plans for future complcations.  It also allows us to control food crops, animals breeds, and various other commerical uses.  I may also lead to the development of medications or preventitve means of treating many human diseases that are caused by genetic mutations.
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mutation- it is the heritable change in the genetic material ie DNA of an organism.it can involve changes in gametes (germline mutations) and changes in body cells (somatic mutations). \n\ncheck out this site for info:
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biotechnology is seen by many as one of the most advanced form of technology.according to me biotechnology is engineering for the animals.it is a blend of biology and chemistry that is used to cure, incurable diseases just by correcting the very genes or cells that cause the disease.an engineer aspiring to become a doctor can make a great biotechnologist.
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large gene pool\n\nrandom selection
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Genetic engineering can, indeed solve many health and ecological issues such as preventing diseases involved in transcription, etc. and increasing crop yield.  Whether or not it's the hope of the future is unique to each person.
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Not sure if this will help but try the link below\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/gene
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no. this is not genetic engineering. you must consider that an organism's characteristics, including the sex are governed by the genoytpe and the phenotype.the genotype is the characteristic that is embeddded in the gene. the phenotype on the other hand is the characteristic that is manifested or seen. in order to do genetic engineering, you have to manipulate the genes in order to change a certain genotype. in the case of sexual transplant only the appearance of the external organs are changed. the genotype of the individual is still the same although phenotypically it can look a lot like the opposite sex.
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Genetic Engineering.\n\nWhich isn't around yet, so you're stuck with what you have.
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genes, are made up of coded information. It is these codes or mutations of code that contain information that determine your characteristics.
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In biology, evolution is the change in the heritable traits of a population over successive generations, as determined by shifts in the allele frequencies of genes. Over time, this process can result in speciation, the development of new species from existing ones.
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Genetic Information\nDNA-RNA -Protien synthesis - Amino acid