Genetic engineering is a growing process in science in today’s world.  It is when you take a gene for a desired characteristic from one organism and insert it into the genome of another organism to get the desired characteristic.  This process involves 2 enzymes, the restriction enzyme and the ligase enzyme.  In simple words, it is when a scientist gets the desired characteristic and inserts it into a human or plant.  

 

First of all, you need to find the desired gene that you want and then cut that section of the DNA out using the restriction enzyme.  Second, you need to insert that gene into a vector, this could be a virus or a bacterial plasmid.  The vector and the isolated gene are joined together by the ligase enzymes.  Third, you need to inject that vector with the desired gene inside into the organism you want to have the gene in.  The organism is supposed to take up the vector, which has the gene inside.  After it has taken it up, the gene would start to code for a protein, which would result in the desired characteristic being visible.  This organism would now be called genetically modified.  With this the process of genetic engineering is finished.