Biotechnology and Its Implications

It could lead to new cures for diseases.

It could make food crops more resistant to climate change.

It could allow for the creation of dangerous viruses that spread easily.

It could help in developing prosthetic limbs.

Creating new types of cotton for clothes.

Building skyscrapers.

Predicting weather patterns.

Designing video games.

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It has become more restricted to only a few top laboratories.

It has become more expensive and harder to obtain.

It has become cheaper and more widely available, even for non-experts.

It has remained largely unchanged, requiring specialized training.

It could lead to new types of food.

It could make plants grow faster.

It could make it easier for dangerous viruses to spread.

It could help create new medicines.

Both are used to create new types of energy.

Both are extremely powerful and have potential for great good or great harm.

Both are only used for military purposes.

Both are easy for anyone to use safely.

Developing new types of weapons.

Treating genetic data of dangerous viruses as highly restricted information.

Encouraging everyone to create new viruses.

Building more hospitals.

By watching movies about viruses.

By having labs in cities that monitor what's happening in the microworld.

By waiting for people to get very sick.

By only studying viruses in animals.