What are the benefits and risks of producing black roses through biotechnology?
Bioethics considers the ethical issues raised in biology and medicine, and especially those raised by human activity in society and the environment using biotechnology. The word can apply to agriculture in the past thousands of years, but is often used to apply to new techniques. We should not forget that all civilisations were formed needing food, clothes, and medicines, and in that sense biotechnology is not new. What is new is that we can now make new varieties much more quickly, and with greater variation - and some foodstuffs made from plants bred using genetic engineering are already being sold in parts of the world. all have some limit, whether it be blue roses or chicken with four legs - and we also realise these limits change through time. A simple definition of bioethics, as I said earlier could be love of life. The images of life are therefore most illuminating in the pursuit of bioethics. Source : http://www.eubios.info/Papers/AGBIO.htm
@ValerieXY Did u get that
Yes, rohangrr. But I still got one more question for you .. If we wanna produce a homozygous recessive plants that can produce black flowers .. Issit after we cross breed the homozygous recessive plants then the outcome will be 100% homozygous recessive ( black allele is recessive, it will only be black if the plant has a homozygous recessive allele) then when we isolated and cloned the gene , it will produce black flowers?
if "black roses" term used for flower- that doesn't have much use, so why to invest so much time for generating such a flower.. is a total waste. as rose is not a food stuff, or main medicinal constituent, I don't think there s much harm..
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