Genetically engineered salmon? Other animals?

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  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
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    http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/125-explore/shared-genes

    One of the lessons learned from gene mapping is that all creatures are more alike than different. Worried that we're mixing and matching? Already through natural selection 18% of the human genome is the same as brewer's yeast.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
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    Another shocking discovery is that length of genome has very little to do with the complexity of the creature. There have been selective pressures that have either encouraged the plant to build either a fearfully long genome with loads of useless bits, and another, for efficiency sake, a very short one.

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