Ethical Issues in Biotechnology Video Lecture - NEET

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example so this was all about the
various applications of biotechnology in
different fields now there are certain
ethical issues also associated with the
genetic modification of various
organisms and class now
genetic modification which involves
manipulation of living organisms has
both these advantages and advantages now
as you saw then things now once you are
ready clear with the process of genetic
engineering mixing and matching of gene
becomes very simple looks very simple to
you like you can have an orange inside
which you have Apple you can have a corn
and then from outside it might be a
banana
so all these experiments become very
simple when you are into the field of
genetic engineering now over a period of
time it has been observed that in there
are several disadvantages associated
with genetic modification as well now
there are many ethical issues associated
with it it has been followed that there
are many scientists who are actually
making use of certain things which hurts
the regional sentiments of many people
so let us quickly look at the advantages
and disadvantages of genetic
modification meanwhile we will also talk
about the ethical issues involved or
associated with it so some of the
advantages of genetic modification are
larger yield of crops of course enhanced
genetic diversity because you can
actually give rise to new varieties of
plants radicals inbuilt resistance to
pests and diseases now this is an
advantage because there are it it has an
inbuilt pesticide but at the same time
that is disadvantage as well because
that inbuilt pesticide can actually
enter into the food chain and can harm
the people who eat them less need for
insecticides because they already have
it in build more tolerant to adverse
climate
ditions then too much of heart too much
old trout or too much of water so you
can it is more taller and you also
adverse conditions whereas if you talk
about the disadvantages it can adversely
affect morale issues so this is again
important because it has been found that
in many areas it so happened that people
story think if you look at the entire
world there are certain countries who
are traditionally very rich so they have
a lot of knowledge as far as the
traditional knowledge is concerned and
India is one of them however such
countries are not developed countries so
they are developing countries so they do
not have a very strong background where
they have lot of technology or they have
lot of money so all those things are
missing whereas there are certain
countries who are very strong
economically but they do not have a lot
of traditional knowledge so what what's
happening is those who have the power
those who are the developed countries
they sometimes try to take advantage of
the traditional knowledge of the
developing countries and they come up
and they make use of technology and they
come up with better products but they
are actually stealing an idea from the
developing countries so these kind of
issues have affected the ethical issues
of tip several parts from in several
sections of people so genetic
modification can affect moral issues and
that is why in every country there are
certain laws which have been put into
place which which restricts or which
gives some limitations to genetic
modification it is involved in the
process because as you know in the
process of genetic engineering then we
insert a new gene to a target organism
we really don't know what is actually
happening inside so there can be some
animal snips also that is insertion of
the new gene and adversely affect the
functioning of pathology processes
reversible so once you have genetically
modified an organism you cannot reverse
the process allocation way of food
production of this entire process is
artificial it is birth match
and anything that is artificial involves
a lot of manipulation and that is well
there are a lot of disadvantages
associated with that pests and disease
resistant wounds can give rise to even
more harmful organisms because since
they are resistant to pests and insects
that means they have inbuilt pesticides
and insecticides and those pesticides
and insecticides are even difficult even
more difficult to be destroyed so they
are also like harmful so here comes now
when we talk about these ethical issues
or hurting people sentiments there comes
the concept of biopiracy so what does
biopiracy it is a situation whereby
resources are used by others or profits
without proper permission from the
people or countries now you would have
often heard of pirated CDs the word
piracy you would have heard that so
whenever you make use of something
whenever you use something without
taking proper permission from the people
to who that particular thing belongs to
for example I'll give you a small
example it is suppose your friend comes
to your house okay
and he says you that okay I need your a
pen so can I take your pen can I borrow
your pen for a day and he takes your pen
and goes away so there is a scenario
this is not a scenario that a person
enters inside your house without your
permission you do not open the door for
that person to enter that person maybe
he somehow enters through the wood by
breaking the window pane or something
somehow he enters into your house he
takes your pen and he goes away so are
the two situations same in the first
situation the person is coming he is
taking proper permission from you and
then he is taking your pen so you are
okay with that scenario in the next
scenario a person is coming inside your
house without your permission and then
he is taking your man without your
permission so what do you call that
person so the second person will be
called a thief but the first person was
remain a friend so the same scenario
applies here so well in wood but the
like living resources have been used
from some countries or from somebody so
it has to be taken it has to be done
with proper permission if that is not
done then it is said to be violated and
this concept is known as biopiracy
now why this has been put into place is
that as I was telling that many such
cases were observed where some countries
where inviting or making new things
using genetic engineering but the base
product which they had used belonged to
some other country or belong to some
other people and they do not take proper
cohesion from that so that this are not
so they are not these things are not
ethical so that's why there is a
limitation which has been implemented
engineering so that these kind of
unethical issues do not rise thank you
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