Human Genome Project

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to become greater soldiers or officers?
Will the newly found technologies be used to engineer biological weapons?
Corporations
Will corporations require genetic testing to be performed as a term of hire?
Will corporations issue genetic testing to employees to determine job position?
Eugenics
A. Define Eugenics
B. Creating a “Custom Child”
1. Ability
2. Ethics
Privacy and ethical views on genetic testing
General concerns of privacy
Discrimination from insurance companies
Discrimination from government policies
Discrimination from employers
Who should now the results of a genetic test?
Individuals should know
Employers should not know
Government should not know
Insurance should not know
Widespread views on the ethical issues of genetic testing
Physicians and their views
Views of the general public

Discussion on the Negative Implications of the Information Derived from the Human Genome Project
Should man govern nature? This is a question ...

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on the project began in 1990. They used a four-letter system to decode the long strands of deoxyribonucleic acid. As understood from previous research, there are four nitrogenous base pairs that make up DNA. ‘A’ stands for Adenine, which is paired with ‘T’ for Thymine, and ‘G’ stands for Guanine, which is paired with ‘C’, Cytosine. Using this system, scientists from across the globe have properly sequenced a large part of the human genome. This research project was expected to take approximately fifteen years from the beginning. By 1993, the initial plan was in need of revising, because the effort was already ahead of schedule and ...

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