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Task Two Question 10
You should spend 40 minutes on this task.
Write about the following topic:
 
Genetic engineering for both medical and agricultural purposes is
causing an increasing amount of controversy. 
 
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of genetic engineering
and explain your opinion.
 
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or
experience.
Write at least 250 words.

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Spelling
Once you finish writing your essay, if you have
time, go back and read through your essay to
look for mistakes in grammar, punctuation and
spelling
. A number of words have been
misspelled in the following sample answer to the
test question #10. Read through the essay, find
and fix the spelling errors. Then check your
answers on the next page. If you missed some of
the errors, or if you’re not familiar with any of
the vocabulary words, write them down and learn
them. One of the keys to improving your IELTS
score is a good knowledge of academic
vocabulary.
 

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Exercise:
Find the spelling errors in this sample answer:
New advances in scientific technology have allowed sientists to develop the means to
change the biological make-up of living organizms to engineer agriculturul and medicanal
products. Clearly, there are both advantages and disadvantages to ginetic engineering and
I personally believe that genetic modification should be used to adapt medicanal
products, but not agriculturul products.
There are many ethacal and health issues associated with genetic engineering, and it is a
complex and highly controvertial issue. I believe that genetic engineering is benneficial
when used to develop new medacines or scientific technology that helps prolong people’s
lives. For example, if a person is dyeing of an incurable diseese and genetic engineering
technology can provide a new medacine or a treetment that will keep that person alive
and well for several more years, then I beleive it should be used. However, I believe that
teckniques like cloning are unethacal and potentially dangerous because the effects of
these teckniques are unknown and largely unnecesary.
Genetic engineering has also been used to change the biological make-up of agricultural
products. For example, people preffer to buy bananas that are bright yellow because they
look fresh and healthy. Naturaly grown, organnic bananas, however, are not perfectly
yellow, but often have naturally ocurring brown spots caused by sugar. Scientists have
developed methods of changing the jeans of bananas to prevent them from turning
brown. This sort of genetic engineering is unnecessary in my opinion, and may subject
people to unnecessary risks since it has not yet been determuned what kinds of health
risks the genetic changes might cause.
In conclushion, genetic modifickation should be used for necessary and useful purposes
like saving lives, not for rearranging geanes to change the appearance of agricultural
products, a potenshially dangerous and unnecessary procedure.

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