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The Human Genome

This topic reminded me of my summer internship at a science museum.  They had an interactive computer that focused on controversial issues and the human genome was one of them.  I think that it took it to an extreme that if the genome is known then people can start to bias against people based off of their genetic code (or something like that).  I think that there will always be negatives with knowing too much about the human species, like designer babies. (Designer babies would basically end what evolution humans had, or maybe it would cause evolution to go down a different path where everyone is basically the same). 

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