Throughout the industrial age, our society and environment has been completely modified by collecting and transforming massive amounts of inorganic materials. Numerous metals, minerals, and fossil fuels are mined, filtered, dug, and pumped from the earth. They are then burned, hammered, soldered, melted, restructured, and recombined to create the machines, structures, and artifacts of the modern world. We are now adding living human material to the inorganic matter being transformed in our system of production. …showed first 75 words of 756 total…

…showed last 75 words of 756 total…in human gene engineering. They want to alter a person’s germline which are the genes responsible for passing on hereditary traits. Biotechnology is not only altering life- forms, it is also changing the very nature of reproduction. Scientists are not just cloning genes, they have discovered ways of cloning mammals like making exact copies of rabbits, sheep, and cows. There has been predictions that within the next generation, the first humans will be cloned.