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Danomite
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:40 pm 
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Ironman wrote:
The dumbest is the idea that modifying a gene that is responsible for a piece of anatomy in a particular animal, can somehow be used by bacteria. Bacteria can use the genes from other strains of bacteria, but it can't use a gene for a bit of anatomy it doesn't have.


Pardon me if I am understanding this completely wrong (you may be making a statement different to how I am perceiving), but bacteria is quite able to use genes from other organisms, mammalian included. Artificial Insulin production is used through inserting and ligating a human insulin gene transcript into a bacterial RNA plasmid.
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Danomite wrote:
Ironman wrote:
The dumbest is the idea that modifying a gene that is responsible for a piece of anatomy in a particular animal, can somehow be used by bacteria. Bacteria can use the genes from other strains of bacteria, but it can't use a gene for a bit of anatomy it doesn't have.


Pardon me if I am understanding this completely wrong (you may be making a statement different to how I am perceiving), but bacteria is quite able to use genes from other organisms, mammalian included. Artificial Insulin production is used through inserting and ligating a human insulin gene transcript into a bacterial RNA plasmid.


No that's not what I am talking about. Also you are giving an example of something inserted by people. The claim was about bacteria incorporating something on their own.
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Ah, took that way out of context. Apologies.
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Danomite wrote:
Ah, took that way out of context. Apologies.

No need for apologies. You should challenge everything. It might be that you missed an important piece of information, but it might be that you're right too. The important thing is that you're critically analyzing something before accepting it as true.
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