Importance of Genetics in Human Welfare

  1. Transmission of parental traits to offspring is discussed.
  2. High yielding crop varieties are created through hybridization.
  3. Disease resistant crop varieties have been developed through biotechnology. .
  4. Improved breeds of fish, poultry and cattle are developed through biotechnology.
  5. Fingerprint technology is used to determine criminality and paternity.
  6. Treatment methods for color blindness, hemophilia, muscular dystrophy, albinism etc. have been discovered.
  7. Human life saving drugs, vaccines, enzymes, hormones etc. can be produced.
  8. It is possible to create new animals through gene cloning.
  9. Variation, mutation and evolution of organisms are known.

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