Today, we face threats from global pandemics, a rapid decline in our quality of
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Today, we face threats from global pandemics, a rapid decline in our quality of life due to chronic and acute diseases, poor health due to water quality issues, an over-reliance on fossil fuels as our primary energy source, and the tragedies resulting from natural disaster and human conflict. We need effective and economical solutions to all of these pressing threats. Biomedicine & health outcomes, sustainability and security – these are the three major challenges in which Biodesign is working to make a difference. By harnessing the natural design rules of the very biology that is life on the planet, and by translating solutions from one area into another, we are finding new pathways to address these complex challenges (ASU Biodesign Institute)
a. Conduct enough research to understand the basics of Biodesign. Summarize your findings.
b. Discuss the ways in which synthetic biology can help people or harm people
c. Discuss the ways in which Biodesign can help or hurt the environment.
d. Should everyone be allowed to Biodesign?
e. Are there any organisms we should not Biodesign?
One paragraph for each question is enough. Please write it in simple and understandable form.
Explanation / Answer
a. Arizona State University is a one of the biodesign system. A biodesign process should include:
1. It should provide nature -inspired solution.
2. It should use living organisms or product of living organisms for making products, technology.
3. It should be designed in such a way so as to provide maximum advantage in every field of science whether it is agriculture, health.
b. Synthetic biology can both harm and help the people.
Synthetic biology can help the people in following way:
1. It is used in redesigning of biological system.
2. Synthia is a synthetically design bacteria that absorb greenhouse gases and can produce biofuel.
3. Biobricks that are a part of DNA sequence synthesized to incorporate in the living system to help in curing disease etc.
4. Synthetic biology lead to the economical growth of a country .
Synthetic biology can harm in following way
1. They can make the pathogenic strain of micro-organism, more pathogenic
2. They can distrupt the genome of organism.
c. Synthetic biology can harm or can be useful.
1. Synthetic bacteria can be used for making the environment less pollution free. For example, synthia bacteria is used to absorb green house gases.
2. Synthetic biology is used to made bio-pesticide.
The synthetic biology can be harmful to the environment in following way:
1. Synthetic biology products can be some times not decomposed.
2. It can lead to the growth of many unwanted organisms that disturb the food chain.
d. No, everyone should not be allowed to design biodesign as it requires very deep and sound knowledge.
e. Yes, virus should not be allowed to biodesign as viruses are pathogenic and cause various harmful diseases in various organisms.
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