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Permalink Reply by idcollapse Ra on March 1, 2011 at 6:47pm

funny thing is that I haven't watched the movie !! what's it about ?

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Permalink Reply by Chuck B. on March 1, 2011 at 7:18pm

A boyfriend and girlfriend scientist with their team first make a new creature, boy and girl, out of spliced animal DNA for a big corporation and get semi famous. 

Company wants them to continue with this study, but the guys girlfriend wants to start splicing human and animal DNA.  So they secretly start this experiment with no ones knowledge and it gets outta hand.  Creepiness ensues.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6o_Vl2f07Q

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Permalink Reply by idcollapse Ra on March 1, 2011 at 7:29pm

Thanks IrOnman for the link and summary , I appreciate it

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Permalink Reply by Norbury on March 2, 2011 at 1:19am

Who says we have idle genes? We have junk DNA, but by definition that DNA doesn't code for any genes. 

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Permalink Reply by idcollapse Ra on March 2, 2011 at 3:45pm

yeah thanx , I am not a scientics  !!  But I think that the idea behind my point was delivered .

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Permalink Reply by Samuel H. Kenyon on March 3, 2011 at 2:44am

We do have expression of genes during ontogeny.  So the program of development depends on which genes get expressed by which other genes and so on. 

 

If you tinker with hox genes (management genes) you can get the famous legs growing where antennae are supposed to in flies, more or less fingers, etc.

 

I'm no expert in this field but I would guess you won't get a working wing in a human unless that program is still in the genes, and it's not, but you could get lots of other freaky shit like 6 arms, a cyclops eye, teeth growing in weird places, etc.

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