{"id":226125,"date":"2018-09-17T07:38:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T07:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/17\/las-432-week-3-dq-2-engineering-our-future\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:45:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:45:17","slug":"las-432-week-3-dq-2-engineering-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/las-432-week-3-dq-2-engineering-our-future\/","title":{"rendered":"LAS 432 Week 3 DQ 2 Engineering Our Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS 432 Week 3 DQ 2 Engineering Our Future\tA kind of genetic engineering happens in nature, with naturally occurring mutations and the dominance of certain strains. What is different about today&#8217;s processes? What makes them potentially dangerous? What should we consider natural and what is artificial?\tGenetically modified food is a hot topic.\u00a0 Most of us don&#8217;t know much about biology.\u00a0 It is very important in this question that you actually understand what is meant. Don&#8217;t assume you know, find scholarly information on line. Be clear.\u00a0 You often hear the term &#8220;natural&#8221;\ufffd bandied about, it&#8217;s a really big marketing slogan for sure, but most of us have given little thought to what it means and the assumptions and implications involved in its use.\u00a0 We need facts and data, thoughtful arguments. You&#8217;ll need some idea about what genes and genetics are. It is also helpful to get some facts on how genetic modifications in foods are used. &#8220;\ufffd the purpose of genetic modifications. You&#8217;ll find a lot of material on line about this topic. But you need to select your sources carefully.\u00a0 Genetics is probably the single most important concept in biology today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS 432 Week 3 DQ 2 Engineering Our Future A kind of genetic engineering happens in nature, with naturally occurring mutations and the dominance of certain strains. What is different about today&#8217;s processes? What makes them potentially dangerous? What should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/las-432-week-3-dq-2-engineering-our-future\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}