Details

Description

125 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series

Open for debate

Open for debate.

Summary

Discusses the use of genetic engineering in plants and animals, and the hopes spurred by the mapping of human DNA by the Human Genome Project as well as the controversy over using stem cells for disease research.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-117) and index.

Contents

Jack and the beanstalk -- Genetically manufactured food crops -- From douglas fir to bacterial saviors -- Is it in the wind? or not? -- Cloning bossy, Mickey, and the blue ox -- Alliance or danger? -- The human genome -- The stem cell controversy -- For and against -- At the heart of the matter.

Subject

Genetic engineering -- Juvenile literature.

Genetic engineering.

Added Author

Moser, Diane, 1944-

ISBN

0761415866