Pseudomonas syringae is found naturally in the soil. Sold as Snomax, it is used

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Pseudomonas syringae is found naturally in the soil. Sold as Snomax, it is used to make snow at ski resorts. The same bacterium with a gene deletion (Ice-minus) is used to prevent ice formation on plants. Should Snomax and Ice-minus be considered modified organisms and subject to precautions of releasing genetically modified organisms? Explain why or why not.

Read the selected scriptures and in your response to the prompt discuss how at least one of the scriptures relates to the discussion topic.

Genesis 1:26-27New International Version (NIV)

26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

27 So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

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From the given scriptures, the Genesis 1:26 is related to the discussion topic. With the advent of technology, man has been able to manipulate organisms and use them for different industrial and agricultural applications.Aquaculture, molecular biotechnology, gene engineering, strain development, metabolic pathway engineering - all these methods and techniques has enabled mankind to make useful products.

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