Tag: genetic modification
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Doin’ the Horizontal Mambo
Passing on one’s genetic material is perhaps the driving force behind life as we know it. It is as close to immortal as any of us, unicellular or multicellular, can get. Viewing biology in these terms, it should not have surprised us to discover that organisms have loads of other ways to pass themselves into…
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Fear is a Strange Soil
In aid of promoting greater science literacy and understanding, I give you: GMO the good stuff. We see a lot of media about genetically modified organisms, and most of it is bad news. I don’t understand the fear of it, which is largely fuelled by poor understanding, media sensationalism, and a positively appalling lack of…
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Whirled Peas and Tomatoes
Oh, boy… Wednesdays are the new Mondays for me. Or at any rate, they are going to be the busiest day of the week when it comes to school scheduling. I have Genetics, Drawing, and Organic Chemistry (lecture). So blogging on Wednesday is likely to slip in quality a bit. Not that that’s a high…