Genetic engineering is an important issue in society today. Some people think that it will improve people’s lives in many ways. Others feel that it may be a threat to life on earth. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
Genetic engineering is unquestionably a significant problem and many people differ on the idea that whether this technology will be threatening or beneficial to people’s lives. Although there are good arguments for both views, I believe the latter is more cogent.
In terms of threat, genetic engineering is believed to compound inequality problems. First, some people think that this technology could reinforce inequality between individuals. I would argue that the ability to examine a person’s gene provided by the technology is likely to create the label of good traits and bad traits amongst different people. This labelling phenomenon encourages many people, such as employers to treat employees differently by the given labels but not by their contributions or talents. Second, intervening in the human genome can be abused to create a biologically advantageous human being who performs well and achieves higher socioeconomic status easily. This prediction is especially true when well-off individuals can afford to do this while the underprivileged cannot because of the expensive cost. Consequently, it further widens the gaps between the rich and the poor.
In the case of benefits, genetic engineering plays a pivotal role in the advancement of medicines and agriculture. First, this technology might help doctors detect and treat a range of inherited diseases, most of which are incurable now. For example, the procedure of screening for Down Syndrome can be carried out in almost any hospitals, and this is a result of the research into human genes. Besides, Research into the cure for cancer has been showing progress. In the future, many cancer patients are expected to be completely cured by these treatments, and this means that their quality of life is greatly improved. Second, genetic engineering has laid a foundation for genetically modified food. These farm products’ nutritional value is increased, such as vitamin A. It can help tackle malnutrition problems of citizens in remote areas who do not have access to primary healthcare. Modifying genetic materials might also result in a higher yield of crops. Consequently, a rise in food production will minimize the damage of famine.
In conclusion, notwithstanding the inequality issue, the importance of genetic engineering in medical and agricultural fields is undeniable. Therefore, I strongly advocate the idea that this technology will benefit our society.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, consequently, first, if, second, so, therefore, well, while, for example, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2089.0 1615.20841683 129% => OK
No of words: 377.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.54111405836 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4064143971 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.15313553755 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 176.041082164 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594164456233 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 660.6 506.74238477 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.6049237281 49.4020404114 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.4761904762 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9523809524 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52380952381 7.06120827912 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177302954053 0.244688304435 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0505477892505 0.084324248473 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.055019804083 0.0667982634062 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120175396071 0.151304729494 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0500512854543 0.056905535591 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.3 50.2224549098 74% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.56 12.4159519038 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.84 8.58950901804 115% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 78.4519038076 163% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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