C. Beyer
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Re: Re: Lipper/nailor/chief Cloned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by Oak Ridge
Lets start with your first question.
Cloning is nothing more than taking the genetic code that exists in one egg and sperm combination and injecting that DNA into a fertilized egg, only after the "real" DNA was extracted....nothing more, nothing less.
So if you had a genetic freak of a pig that grew faster and more efficiently than all the rest, and you could decrease the production cost of pork by "mass producing this growing freak"....that is a good thing. It's still a pig, it eats like a pig, grunts like a pig, and smells like a pig...but most importantly, it tastes like a pig.
If you eat chicken, or drink milk...you are already a consumer of "genetic engineering". If you eat corn flakes, or like the taste of corn bread.....nearly every one of our agricultural products are in one way or another "genetically engineered" in one form or fashion. Cloning cows, pigs or chicken for meat is not that far a stretch. Corn for example has been genetically engineered to produce well over 200 bushel to the acre, be pest resistant, smut resistant, drought resistant etc.....and they do this by genetic engineering! Again, not that far a stretch.
You ever get a vaccine? Again, recominant DNA technology. Its the wave of the future, and it has nothing to do with man playing GOD.
Now for the second scenario. I think it would put an end to a lot of wives tales about cloning. There is no direct evidence that things like "talent and personality" are driven by genetics. What does that mean.
It means that if I take a circus elephant that is trained to do 17 different tricks. If I clone it, when it grows up.....it won't know how to do the tricks. It will have the same DNA structure, which means that it should have the same capacity to learn, but not necessarily the same willingness to learn. Cloning is a rubber stamping of the DNA, but not the ability and skills necessary to do anything other than pass on the same DNA.....nothing more, nothing less.
There is something to be said about nature vs. nurture...there is a unique set of ingredients that go into the making of every great coon hound. Genetics is one ingredient, upbringing and training is another, and marketing is the third ingredient.... (  )
The "great ones" were born with a genetic ability. They were brought up in the right environment, and trained accordingly. They proved their ability, and went on to be marketed. Reproductive ability is a matter of opinion. If you have children with 2000 women...sooner or later one of your children is going to be good at football, or basketball, or playing the piano...it does not make you a "reproducer".
I second this. Well said Joe.
Couldnt agree more
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