genetic engineering

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Splintered

"Seventeen-year-old Jimi Corcoran continues her fight for survival and equality in a near-future world where teenagers have animal DNA spliced into their own"--Provided by publisher.
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Tool of war

"In a future beset with rising seas, corporate government, and constant civil war, a bioengineered half-man/half-beast super-soldier who calls himself Tool breaks his conditioning to overcome his genetically enhanced sense of loyalty to the corporation that created him and seeks revenge against his old masters"--OCLC.
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The Plant Planet

"Four mutant animals--LaserShark, AstroWolf, SmartHawk, and StinkBug--have been created by NNASA (Not-NASA) to explore other planets. The criteria: 1. Must be unoccupied. 2. Must support human life. When the Nuts reach their first destination, the Plant Planet, it looks positively perfect for their purposes. It's lush with plant life, full of natural food, and seemingly uninhabited. But what if that plant life can think for itself? And what if it thinks it doesn't like our Nuts?"--Back cover.
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Angel Catbird

"The evil Rat army is aiming for world domination, and only a ragtag gang of half-cats stands in their way"--Back cover.
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Ender's game

Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.

Fiebre

In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age twenty and all males by the age twenty-five, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and journeys back to New York to find her twin brother.
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Efi?mera

After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
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Using genetic technology

An illustrated exploration of scientific advances in genetic technology that covers genes and characteristics, DNA, proteins, engineering techniques, applications in the field of medicine, genetically modified foods, cloning research, the future of the industry, and more.
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Inheritance

When teens Reese and David are kidnapped after revealing that they were adapted with alien DNA, Reese is forced to reconcile her new love for David, a human, with feelings for Amber, an Imrian, and make a world-changing choice.
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Genetic modification

should humans control nature?
Questions the moral and ethical aspects of genetic modification and examines the pros and cons of each argument.
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