Genetic Engineering Science Fair Projects

Genetic engineering science fair projects can give you a leg up on the competition. However, in order to impress the judges with your medicine-health science fair experiments, you will need to conduct extensive background research and create a hypothesis that looks at the subject of genetic engineering in a new or interesting way. Some of the project topics that you can work with include cloning cells, the taste and look of genetically engineered foods and the growth rate of genetically engineered seeds.

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The first topic that you can explore with your genetic engineering science fair projects is cloning cells. In these experiments you will want to look at how cells are cloned or at what can go wrong when cells are clones. A sample hypothesis for a cell cloning project is "cloned cells contain a higher rate of mutations than regularly produced cells.

Another interesting topic that can be explored in genetic engineering science fair projects is the taste of genetically engineered food. One sample project that you can complete will compare the sweetness of genetically engineered produce to that of normal produce. The independent variable in this experiment will be whether the produce is genetically engineered or normal and the dependent variable will be the produce products' sweetness. What did you learn about genetically engineered produce in this experiment? What does this tell you about the food buying trends of humans?

The third option that you have for medicine-health science fair projects that deal with genetic engineering is to look at the nutritional value of genetically engineered foods. In these experiments you will want to look at specific nutritional information of genetically engineered foods like calories, fat content, vitamins and minerals. When developing your hypothesis you will want to make a prediction like, genetically engineered foods will be more nutritious than regular foods.

Growth rates of genetically engineered seeds can also be used as a topic for the world's best science fair projects. Since it would be advantageous for crops to grow faster, this is one modification that scientists have been working on. Your hypothesis can therefore be that genetically engineered seeds will germinate and mature faster than regular seeds. Your independent variable will be the type of seed you are growing and the dependent variables will be the germination rate and the maturity rate of the plant.

While basic science fair projects can do well at a science fair, you will have better luck if you create more advanced projects. One way to advance a project is to apply the results from a basic science fair project to a issue that is in the news. For example, you may have found out that genetically engineered seeds grow faster than non-engineered sees, and so you can develop another project that predicts how much more food you can produce for a region that is struggling with poverty or starvation. You can then use your results to determine how many lives can be saved or how much money can be made off of the surplus from genetically modified crops.