Genetic Engineering Primer

This work seeks to provide answers to questions such as: can dinosaurs really be created from their ancestral blood?; can replicas of famous people be cloned?; can tomatoes be engineered to not soften on the grocery shelves?; can genentic diseases be cured by gene therapy?; and what are the potential hazards involved in these possibilities.;The book is designed to help those with little scientific background become conversant with the area generally called genetic engineering - the changing of genetic information of living organisms by design. To understand genetic engineering, an understanding of some of the living processes and the natural changes that can and do take place, is needed, and this is reflected in this book.