Genetic Engineering 2020

Earlier in 1970’s when people were told that the computers will soon take over everything from shopping, banking to stock market and billions of people from all over the country would be connected via the web or even that they would have a hand held device that is powerful than the supercomputers, they felt absurd but it all happened. Today, science fiction has become our reality. Humans have been engineering life for thousands of years through selective breeding to strengthen useful traits in the plants and animals. But this mechanism was not fully understood until the discovery of Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid (DNA), a complex molecule that guides with the growth, development, function and reproduction of every living being on earth. The information is coded on the structure of the molecules with the help of four nucleotides (Adenine, Guanine, Thymine and Cytosine). Once this information changes, we induce a change in the being carrying it.