What is happening at step 1?
Dead organisms
and este products
Foss
respiration: releasing CO2
photosynthesis: absorbing CO2
decomposing CO2 in the soil

Respiration: releasing CO2

Explanation: Photosynthesis is happening at step 2, and decomposition is occurring at step 4 with the soil and animal waste. I just used the process of elimination.

"1. it should be, it has been for about 20 years, and it's really not much different in the end than breeding animals to have particular traits. there are always concerns about genetically engineered animals/plants affecting the environment in unexpected negative ways, but i can't think of an example where the fears didn't turn out to be baseless.  

first, as you point out, it would be a great advance in pharmacology, to be able to tailor drugs and their doses to me. the pros involve better medical treatment. the cons involve privacy issues like insurance companies denying coverage to people with genetic risk factors. looking at dna markers wouldn't affect the frequency of genetic diseases, but it would allow detection of them earlier. and ok, actually i suppose that if people used this information to avoid having children with genetic diseases, some might decrease in frequency."

50% lit on the left side