Biotechnology — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

1. Bioethics is the study of moral vision, decision and policies of human behaviour in relation to biological phenomena or events.
2. Bioethics deals with wide range of reactions on new developments like cloning, transgenic, gene therapy, eugenics, r-DNA technology, in vitro fertilization, sperm bank, gene therapy, euthanasia, death, maintaining those who are in comatose state, prenatal genetic selection, etc.
3. Bioethics also includes the discussion on subjects like what should and should not be done in using recombinant DNA techniques.

Ethical aspects pertaining to the use of biotechnology are:

1. Use of animals cause great sufferings to them.
2. Violation of integration of species caused due to transgenosis.
3. Transfer of human genes into animals and vice versa.
4. Indiscriminate use of biotechnology pose risk to the environment, health and biodiversity.
5. The effects of GMO on non-target organisms, insect resistance crops, gene flow, the loss of diversity.
6. Modification process disrupting the natural process of biological entities.