Genetic Engineering 101 by grace

Genetic Engineering 101 by grace - August 2017 Scholarship Essay

After consideration of my past courses taken in high school, I weighed my options and narrowed it down. If I was a college professor I would teach a Genetic Engineering class. This class' syllabus would include the basics of genetics and heritage in humans and animals, then move onto topics such as diseases in genes, extinction factors, similarities in different species' DNAs, ethics, etc.

I would chose this exploratory science as a course to teach to college students because of the endless pathways and outcomes genetic engineering could lead to. The intriguing research and labs we would perform would continue to expand my knowledge. Though I would be the teacher of this class, I too would be learning during each class period. Also, with multiple class periods comes multiple outcomes of the labs, and multiple variables to change, keeps the same, and test. I would take this knowledge upon myself to critique the given experiment, and get closer and closer to our target in the oncoming experiments. Through genetic engineering, my classes and I could alter species in size, color, or features giving them new abilities to possibly adapt to different environments. WIthin ethics, genetic engineering has endless possibilities to explore.