Question

Understanding the molecular basis of life helped in developing many technologies some used to further discover the cell, and others used to diagnose diseases or create organs or perform surgeries. Choose one technology and describe it briefly indicating its uses. 2. In what ways might genetically engineered organisms pose a threat to the health and safety of human populations

Answer 1

1- The CRISPR-Cas system

2- Genetically modified organisms raise concerns associated with allergic reactions, horizontal gene transfer and outcrossing

Step-by-step explanation:

The CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)-Cas (CRISPR-associated) technology is widely used in medicine and research. The CRISPR-Cas is a versatile RNA-programable genome editing system capable of introducing genetic modifications at target DNA sequences. This technology is based on the natural bacterial immune system that cleaves bacteriophages and plasmid DNA sequences. Moreover, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) have historically raised three major concerns on human health: 1-the allergenicity of GMO foods, 2-the ability that GMOs might have to insert genes through horizontal transfer and 3-outcrossing between GMOs and (genetically) unmodified crops, which are further consumed as non-GM foods.