bread and apples for everyone!

World hunger is an ever growing problem in our world, but there is hope. The article is "Wheat and apple DNA sequenced, providing clues that may help eliminate famine." by David Biello, it is providing information on the front lines of the bio technology industry. Experts hope that in 2050 all of Earth's growing nine billion inhabitants will be able to be fed; this is hypothesized because crops such as wheat and the infamous apple are on the list to have their genetic code read. Although this gives hope for the ending of famine the journey will be very long, for the genome of wheat is fives time longer than that of the human genome. The step forward is a large leap for agriculture because before agriculturist had to cross breed plants to make desirable traits but this simply took to long and was much too laborious but now they can simply concentrate on specific location on genome and genetically engineer that can withstand harsh climate variables such as droughts. The apple's genetic code is also being read also. The gift in genetic engineering is that we are able to manipulate the crop into one with desirable traits such a disease resistant, the ability to live through droughts, and other desirable traits.

This is biotechnology the study and use of organic substances to produce drugs, products and other helpful products. DNA is a vast mysterious entity a small change can cause such large differences although sometimes not desirable we can mold the crop into what we need and in that we have to do countless experiments and studying to find trait locations and find which genetic code does what.

This article is very important because with this we can move on to making better crops for mass production and end world hunger. This article informs the people what science is up too and doesn’t only show that its prospering the haves but also the have nots. The article states the idea of ending famine and also this research could lead to other scientific research as modifying human genomes for X linked diseases.