Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 331
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the application of classical and molecular genetic technologies to micro-organisms, plants, and animals.
Author: Assessment Office Of Technology
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2020-09-23
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0429704798
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1982 . This report examines the application of classical and molecular genetic technologies to micro-organisms, plants, and animals. This book is one of the first comprehensive documents on emerging genetic technologies and their implications for society. The authors discuss the opportunities and problems involved, describe current techniques, and attempt to project some of the economic, environmental, and institutional impacts of those techniques. The issues they raise go beyond those of technology, utility, and economic feasibility. As we gain the ability to manipulate life, we must face basic questions of just what life means and how far we can reasonably-and safely-allow ourselves to go.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
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Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1428924493
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2008-11-03
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 0309178401
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the first commercial introduction of transgenic corn plants in 1995, biotechnology has provided enormous benefits to agricultural crop production. Research is underway to develop a much broader range of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs), including fish, trees, microbes, and insects, that could have the potential to transform fields such as aquaculture, biofuels production, bioremediation, biocontrol, and even the production of pharmaceuticals . However, biotechnology is not without risk and continues to be an extremely controversial topic. Chief among the concerns is the potential ecological effects of GEOs that interact with wildlife and habitats. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is charged with providing scientific advice to inform federal agencies that manage wildlife and their habitats. USGS has identified biotechnology as one of its major challenges for future research. Seeing an opportunity to initiate a dialogue between ecologists and developers of GEOs about this challenge, the USGS and the National Research Council (NRC) held a two-day workshop in November of 2007, to identify research activities with the greatest potential to provide the information needed to assess the ecological effects of GEOs on wildlife and habitats. The workshop, designed to approach the research questions from a habitat, rather than transgenic organism, perspective, is summarized in this book.
Author: Bernard C. Lamb
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9781860941795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Plant breeding, animal breeding, medical genetics and the genetics of industrial fungi are usually taught separately, but they are all linked by strong central concepts regarding the generation, control and fate of genetic variation at the levels of genes, chromosomes, genomes and populations. Mutation, recombination, selection, population genetics and karyotype changes are involved, together with breeding systems. This book constitutes an integrated undergraduate course in applied genetics based on those central concepts. It is suitable for those interested in working with plants, animals, humans or fungi. Such a course, or selected parts of it, is applicable to students of biological, microbiological, agricultural and biomedical sciences.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2004-07-08
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0309166152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Assists policymakers in evaluating the appropriate scientific methods for detecting unintended changes in food and assessing the potential for adverse health effects from genetically modified products. In this book, the committee recommended that greater scrutiny should be given to foods containing new compounds or unusual amounts of naturally occurring substances, regardless of the method used to create them. The book offers a framework to guide federal agencies in selecting the route of safety assessment. It identifies and recommends several pre- and post-market approaches to guide the assessment of unintended compositional changes that could result from genetically modified foods and research avenues to fill the knowledge gaps.