Uploaded on 2014-10-18 by Coryna

Human organisms are different from any other species. Their distinctiveness resides, especially, in the emotional, cognitive and creative processes through which they have developed an interconnected system of activities from language, art, science technology and so on. One of the human creation is the genetic technology, a technology whose aim is to replicate various properties of organisms in order to evolve new materials. In order to do so, in the DNA of one species are introduced genes from another species. So for example, if we want to develop a composite material made out of different organic fibers, we select the genes that code the proteins which synthesize those fibers, we replicate them and we add them to the embryos of a plant. The result is a transgenetic plant, that can be processed later on in order to obtain the necessary fibers. Similarly, if we are interested in the genes that encode some specific skeleton structures in the seashell, we transfer those into the selected organism and we can grow this new material. The transgenetic approach does not transfer pathogenic genes or other viruses, it is limited only to some species and it is done in a controlled manner. During the evolutionary process whole genomes have been transferred from one species to another (including viruses and other mutated genes). With the advancement and exploration of this technology, a new approach to construction might be considered, a generative one. The image illustrates the Fibonacci sequence, a sequence that can be found in the morphology of many organisms. ![Golden Rule][1] [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14136565018722399.jpg