Patenting People: The Benefits Behind Genetic Engineering Patenting People Genetic engineering is new breakthrough technology concerning many ethical, legal, and social standpoints that influence people different ways. Genetic engineering is the term that applies to techniques used to alter or combine genes in a organism. Cells of all living organisms contain genes. Genes contain instructions for making cells and for the work that goes on inside them. The complete set of genes for a human …showed first 75 words of 1406 total…

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