Jonathan Jacques
Biology 1101K
Dr. Fuhua Lu
10/20/2016
Cell modification from plants to modified plants
Gaining the ability to create a human cell is thought to be the beginning to creating life.
The creation of life has always been a question for scientist to understand; it is now and has been
asked since the beginning of scientific understanding. Before creating you must understand how
the created have become as they are. Over decades centuries of trying to create life many
scientists have failed and gave up trying to reach that goal. Although giving up on the creation of
a human cell there are always other ways that a goal may be reached without fully achieving it?
Scientists have begun with the creation of a human cell and the understanding of how life is
created and from there they began to focus on the understanding that life is not just in humans
but life is in animals, plants, bacteria, fungus etc. This knowledge has changed the basis of all
studies and questions. The cells of plants have now been studied understood and are the next step
that scientist are trying to reach on creating life.
Those seeking for knowledge on the creation of life have led to a two way belief
questioned to the world all over. Some believe life has come from natural creation, destruction of
dinosaurs, etc. Others have faith and believe, in the creation of the world by our creator, God
almighty. With the failure to create the cell of a heterotroph, we have stopped and taken a step
back on where our understanding of life has taken us. After taking this step back we re-evaluated
the fact that all life has been created from cells, so now we have begun the study on the creation
of cells from autotrophs: plants, fruits, and vegetables, as our first step to the creation of cells.
Today we have reached a goal, we have gotten to a place where plant cells are now being
modified, “Genetic (recombinant DNA) engineering is the manipulation of DNA molecules to
produce modified plants, animals, or other organisms.”[ CITATION Gle94 \l 1033 ] This change
helped us to have plants last longer at their ripest state. From the modification of the plant cells
Jonathan Jacques
Biology 1101K
Dr. Fuhua Lu
10/20/2016
we have now begun to change their size, how sweet they are and improve the longevity of fruits,
vegetables and plants all over. We have reached this goal and as humans we cannot stop here. We
have now begun to research how we may have these modifications help to modify the longevity
of our lives, our strength, hand eye coordination, and even the way we think. As a step forward,
“scientists can now isolate the gene or genes for the traits they want in one animal or plant and
move them into another.”[ CITATION Gle94 \l 1033 ] As scientists dealing with science there is
no limit to how far our imagination will go and what we feel we may or may not achieve,
modify, or change.
The hypothesis of replicating plant cells has been getting studied and experimented on
