Principles of Biology

Please respond to each question in no less than 200 words.  Include credible references. Must be plagiarism free.

1.  What are genome projects and DNA fingerprinting? What are some pros and cons of each issue? Do you support each issue? Explain.

2.  Years ago, a newspaper headline read “Scientists Create Life.”  Actually, scientists had strung together a chain of nucleotides to make a strand of DNA. This was the first time DNA had been synthesized in a laboratory; it has been synthesized many times since that first headline. Based on what you now know about the characteristics of living things and DNA, why do you think the early story was “Scientists Create Life?”