Biocolonialism can be seen as a way to take DNA samples from different races for economic or medical reasons. The idea that they were planning on categorizing DNA samples in a database seems kind of cool to me. Personally I think they should just do it for everyone kind of like a census. That way when certain ethnicity and small tribes all over the world change and move or in the case that they die out there will still be a record that one day they did exist. Personally I had no idea places like gene banks existed, I guess I assumed there were labs like this but I didn't know that companies could specialize in being a storage place for these genes. I had heard of the Human Genome Diversity Project but I was never really sure exactly what they did. After reading the article I can see how this could be helpful to science and genome mapping. I can understand how this could be helpful to science, but I ca also understand where certain colonies and small societies can see why they don't want this to happen. They don't want people to have access to their genes for any purpose other than science, they don't want any medical use of their gene and especially no economic use of their genes.
Question: What do you think they could do with these genes that could be harmful to the societies the genes came from? How could this project be altered so that nothing bad could come of it?
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