samanthajane
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Just finished watching this really brilliant programm about dinosaurs.
They have found tissue in a fossil that was 35 million years old, before they said this could only survive for 2 million years.
This had lead them on to try and get the DNA of a dinosaur and hopefully have a jurassic park.
Also they were tweeking certain genes in other animals such as fly's, bee's and chickens.
They were able to find the correct gene that made a bumble bee have wings and they were able to produce a bee with no wings. They also found the certain gene that made a chicken grow a longer tail and teeth. If they wanted to "make" a dinosaur they would start with an emo as it's the closest.
This got me thinking that in years to come they could tweek certain genes of humans. Would be brilliant to eliminate certain medical issues but would they take things to far ( i'm sure there was a film about this years ago) that you could in a way make your own child. Choose how tall he/she was, the colour of their eyes everything!
Then eventually maybe change yourself. Like the growth gene you could make it that it started working again so you would be a few inches taller.
Not that it's going to happen in our life time, but if it was would you want to change anything about yourself? What would you change? And would you pre-programm your child so he/she would turn out exacetly how you would like, or would you just leave everything to mother nature?
They have found tissue in a fossil that was 35 million years old, before they said this could only survive for 2 million years.
This had lead them on to try and get the DNA of a dinosaur and hopefully have a jurassic park.
Also they were tweeking certain genes in other animals such as fly's, bee's and chickens.
They were able to find the correct gene that made a bumble bee have wings and they were able to produce a bee with no wings. They also found the certain gene that made a chicken grow a longer tail and teeth. If they wanted to "make" a dinosaur they would start with an emo as it's the closest.
This got me thinking that in years to come they could tweek certain genes of humans. Would be brilliant to eliminate certain medical issues but would they take things to far ( i'm sure there was a film about this years ago) that you could in a way make your own child. Choose how tall he/she was, the colour of their eyes everything!
Then eventually maybe change yourself. Like the growth gene you could make it that it started working again so you would be a few inches taller.
Not that it's going to happen in our life time, but if it was would you want to change anything about yourself? What would you change? And would you pre-programm your child so he/she would turn out exacetly how you would like, or would you just leave everything to mother nature?