The Natural Law Party. All rights reserved. Genetic engineering has the capacity to disable sensory and consciousness mechanisms seated in the physiology. A gene is a sequence of codons within the DNA that produces a protein or enzyme that has a particular function in the physiology of a plant, human, or other organism. There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of genes in any given organism.
Genetic engineering is the process of transferring genes between species.
The aim of this process is to transfer desirable traits from one organism to another. For example a gene from an Arctic fish has been transferred to a tomato to try to make it more frost resistant. In Australia, a part of a human gene has been put in a pig to make the it grow larger with more lean meat. In practice there are side effects, the pigs end up with arthritis and tomato crops have failed to perform. Side effects arise because genes function in a coordinated manner with other genes.