Genetic Engineering With the birth of new technology in the ever-growing field of genetic engineering, scientific extremists and those against technology have risen to block the future of genetics. According to Webster's Dictionary, Genetic engineering refers to the artificial modification of the genetic code of a living organism. Genetic engineering changes the fundamental physical nature of the organism, sometimes in ways that would never occur in nature. Genes from one organism are inserted in another organism, most often across natural species boundaries. The Foundation for Genetic Research stated that the effects of genetic engineering which a