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libfemme ( 05/12/2004, 03:40:13 )This isn’t about cloning per se, but because so many people opposed to cloning are really afraid of genetic engineering, it’s appropriate to talk bring this topic up here:Scientists have found that biotech genes introduced into corn can jump up to 100 yards and insert itself in another plant. What does that mean? Do these bioengineered genes have some sort of superpowers? No, bioengineered genes can jump from plant to plant because that’s what natural genes. It’s called pollen, the cause of hay fever and allergies. Pollen carries genes. Pollen is the sperm cells of plants. And sperm travel. Whether they are human sperm or plant pollen they like to get around and fertilize as many different kinds of flowers as they can.So can it truly be said that there are any really transgenic genes ? Transgenic means taking a gene from one species and introducing it into a new species. But because a gene came from a plant of one species, does that mean the gene belongs only to that species? Is transferring genes from one species to another, inheriently wrong? Harmful?No more so than what happens already. I'm not suggesting that we don't think about it before we introduce new genes somewhere. I'm suggesting that even if man does not transfer genes, that doesn't mean the risk from transgenic genes is any less.We live now with the risk, whatever that risk may be, that our food may have naturally picked up a gene in the field from some other species of plant. And so far we have not only survived, we have prospered. Should we be aware of what genes we introduce into plants. Sure. Should we catastrophize over them? No.
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