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John Blanc
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Annotative Bibliography
Bailey, Ronald. “LINCCWeb Catalog Search.” LINCCWeb Catalog Search. InfoBase, 13
May 2005. Web. 28 Feb. 2017.
Ronald Bailey’s article, published in InfoBase Learning, discusses the pros and cons on the
effect of gender selection. Bailey uses the opinion of a PGD specialist from the Wayne State
University School of Medicine, stating that choosing to select of your child to avoid a certain
disease is unethical. He states that, “if there is no illness, no suffering then there no reason for a
physician to be involved.” Bailey organized the article where he covered the opposition as well
the people for gender selection. Parents or people that want to exercise their free will would
argue that choosing the gender of their children is none of anyone’s concern, but fail to notice the
drastic imprint it can leave on the world. Bailey also stressed the risk of creating” designer
babies.” Children whose parents decided to pick out every aspect of their child like hair, color,
height even intelligence. That is something we should keep an eye out for later in the essay.
Anthes, Emily. “LINCCWeb Catalog Search.” LINCCWeb Catalog Search. InfoBase, 15
Sept. 2014. Web. 28 Feb. 2017.
Published in 2014, Anthes Article is an insight on the cause and effects on genetic engineering
and biotechnology. The consequences of generic engineering have a plethora of good and bad
results for example, genetic engineering could help with world phenomena’s like world hunger,
but genetic engineering the possible affects unknown for health and the environment. When
discussing the possible effects, weighing out the options seems best, the process could help most
of the major diseases like AIDS, Gonorrhea, Cancer and others. Then goes into detail about how
the whole genetic engineering and biotechnology came to be, its advances toward what it is
today, benefits and even the risks. Then he puts the two together and weigh out the risks versus
the benefits of the genetic engineering. Athens article provides great insight of history of the idea
and where it started to what it became and even the plans for the near future, some of which is
happening today.
Maese, Rick. “LINCCWeb Catalog Search.” LINCCWeb Catalog Search. InfoBase, 7
Oct. 2005. Web. 28 Feb. 2017.
Rick Maese’s article provide a great insight on how genetic engineering has grown and will
continue to grow. He explains how much of our food is genetically modified, between 70% and
75% of food in the grocery stores is GMO or contain GMO products (Maese). Scientists and
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farmers have a couple reasons for using GMO products like, to keep bugs from eating the crops
or to help the crop grow faster or bigger. The author also explains hoe mush genetic engineering
is a benefit, being used to help find a cure for AIDS, hemophilia and sickle cell anemia. Maese
organized the article to which you can see the arguments of both sides of the engineering
controversy. In the process, Maese includes the history of bioengineering and its advancement
from and single sample scrapped off a toad becoming the first successful attempt at genetically
engineering an organism
Muhammad Gadit, Amid A. (‘ JPMA The Journal of the Pakistan Medical
Association).” FLVC SFX Services. Academic OneFile, 31 July 2012. Web. 05 Mar. 2017.
This is a comprehensive source of information on the growing trend of gender selection. This
article provides a good overview, including the different methods of gender selection procedures.
The article includes information on (PGD) Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, which uses vitro
Fertilization, the creating of embryo’s outside the womb and planting it inside. He also includes
information about a machine called Microsort that separates the X and Y bearing sperms to
further determine the child. He states that “With sperm sorting procedure, there is a possibility of
implantation of an inferior sperm, development of undesirable traits in selected offspring like:
low intelligence, birth defects and even genetic disorders.” Muhammad’s basically saying that
