Genetic engineering is about scientists altering the 'recipes' for making life - the genes which you find in all living things. Doing this is very clever and could be very useful. But it's all happening much too fast and nobody knows what the effects of making and eating such living things will be. Many kinds of life could be damaged.
Nobody knows for sure.
But first, click here to find out how you can use this guide. You may not want to look at all of this guide right away, so you can jump to any part that interests you from table at the bottom of this page. If you don't mind waiting a short while, you can download the whole guide as one big file. Adapt or die Only the fittest life survives. Here's how it does it.