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Digitizing DNA allows for DNA sequencing which can reveal information about a person's ancestry and health. While digitizing DNA provides benefits like identifying genetic diseases, it also poses privacy and security risks if the data is hacked. On balance, digitizing DNA has made the world better by enabling the early detection of health issues and solving crimes, though stronger protections are needed to address the potential downsides of exposing personal genetic information.

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Digitizing DNA allows for DNA sequencing which can reveal information about a person's ancestry and health. While digitizing DNA provides benefits like identifying genetic diseases, it also poses privacy and security risks if the data is hacked. On balance, digitizing DNA has made the world better by enabling the early detection of health issues and solving crimes, though stronger protections are needed to address the potential downsides of exposing personal genetic information.

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● Quadrant 1: What is being digitized? How is the information represented digitally?


○ For example: Is it an image or text? Do you think it's been compressed? Which
form of compression (lossy/lossless)?
● Quadrant 2: What is the goal or purpose of digitizing this thing?
● Quadrant 3: What are the benefits and harms of digitizing this content?
● Quadrant 4: Is our world better or worse because of digital representation? Explain
why, giving examples from the article.
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Digitization of DNA Goals of Digitizing of DNA
DNA profiling was first developed in 1984 by Sir Alec There are different purposes for digitized DNA.The
Jeffreys which led to the first use of dna testing in a criminal Public uses for digitizing DNA when the buy DNA kits,
case. In modern day society, DNA testing kits are widely to find their ethnicity,and Ancestry or in a medical sense
available . For example companies like 23andMe and it can find mutations in your genes, chromosomes or
AncestryDNA. These companies use DNA sequencing to see proteins. This is all possible by sorting the DNA and
one's anatomy.The result is images, captures in strings of compare them to others.
0,1,A,T,G and C. Bits of computer and biological code.This
information is compressed,the type is lossless compression.

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Benefits & Harms 4 A Better World Due to
Benefits of using DNA kits is finding out Digital Representation
ethnicity,ancestry, confirm or rule out specific genetic
diseases or chromosomal problems like cancer and etc. The world is better to due to digital representation. Even
Harms of DNA kits is that with the addition of digitized though many harms that come with digital
DNA provides hackers with another target to exploit . representation,the good, outweighs the bads.Without the
digital representation of DNA , mothers would never
know what gender their babies are beforehand, people
would find too late they’re cancer patients, criminals
would never get caught and etc.

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