Week 6 Biotech+Art

This week's topic is biotech and art. I do think that people have a variety of different opinions toward the definition of biotech. Most of the people do think that biotech is something very complicated in microbiological level, and others think biotech is the modification that scientist trying to do in the lab. In my personal point of view,  I consider both as biotech art.

In the micro evolution level. All species evolved through millions of years to finally become the species we see today. They going under nature selections, genetic draft and mutations which makes them totally different from their ancestors. If we have a close look at one specie, for example horses, we would find out how amazing the process is and how artistic the nature is. They were short leg animal who could not run very fast but could turn sharply. As the environment evolved, coevolution makes them grow longer and stronger legs so that they get food at higher places and run faster.

Beside what the nature did to all the living life on earth, people nowadays start to modify animals' genes to make them serve as special functions. As my opinion, i do think this is a faster way to achieve what they want but it somehow does destroy the balance of the nature.

Clone is one of the most popular biotech topics people like to talk about. It is truly amazing when you can 'copy and paste' animals. As people being happily surprised by this technic, they also fear what this technic will bring to the human world. The movie 'Star War' makes people even horrified. Therefore, biotech technic is really a double blade sword.

Citations:

1. Horse evolution. 2011. Photograph. edublogWeb. 10 Nov 2013. <http://horsejumper.edublogs.org/2011/03/13/horse-evolution-and-brief-history/>.

2. Zhang, Michael. star war. 2011. Photograph. petapixelWeb. 10 Nov 2013. <http://petapixel.com/2011/04/14/famous-photos-recreated-with-star-wars-clone-troopers/>.

3. Cloning a failing Mac RAID. N.d. Photograph. The data rescue centerWeb. 10 Nov 2013. <http://thedatarescuecenter.com/blog/tag/cloning/>.

4. Biology modification. N.d. Photograph. Biochemistry and genetic Web. 10 Nov 2013. <http://the-biochemistry.blogfa.com/post-2.asp&xgt;.

5. "Optimal process mode selection for clone screening." Acta chimica slovenica (2011)