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Old 01-16-08, 04:21 PM   #7
jumpy
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Yer, Dolly was cloned from a 6 year old sheep, ergo when the clone was born she was already 6 years old?

Common sense tells me that anything using tinkering with dna is most likely speculation. Let me explain.
Scientists say 'oh, this is junk dna, we don't need to worry about it.' they only say this because thay haven't figured out what it actually does yet.

Until you understand something completely, how can you say whether or not any part of it is redundant/useless or whatever?
When we figure out how dna works in its entirety for the 'thing' we are modifying (like foodstufs, be they animal or plants) then perhaps I'll be convinced that it's safe to eat, without causing my children to be born with two heads!

You only hvae to look at the result of well meaning scientists and their meddling with animal feed - 'I know! Lest grind up dead animals mix it with some other plant based stuff and turn them into cattle feed pellets!' Kill 2 birds with 1 stone: make money and more animal feed. What they didn't know was the result of feeding crushed spinal matter and the like back to animals which are evolved to eat plants - contamination of the food chain leading to transmittal of BSE in cattle to humans.
Score one for science.... not.
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