Re: Spacey Ambitions - They're KIDDING, Right ?
From: Bill Bonde ('That he not busy being born') (stderr_at_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com)
Date: 03/21/05
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:49:13 -0800
"Paul F. Dietz" wrote:
>
> * US * wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:31:58 GMT, "Carey Sublette" <careysub@earthling.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>...It is most unclear how adding new
> >>genes to this existing (and ancient) process of genetic mixing risks
> >>reducing genetic diversity.
> >
> >
> > That's all the more reason to become better informed about it.
> >
> > "Crop diversity. Because genetic engineering focuses on crops with
> > certain highly desirable traits, genetic diversity within the crop could
> > be diminished. This can make crops more susceptible to natural
> > calamities such as disease outbreaks. Such problems also have
> > been encountered with hybrids generated by traditional
> > breeding techniques..."
>
> But you still haven't explained *why* this leads to reduction
> in diversity.
>
> If anything, making it easier to transfer highly desirable traits
> into crops should *increase* diversity, since those traits can be
> more economically added to many different strains. The easier
> the engineering is, the easier and cheaper it is to make more varieties
> of product.
>
But can you transfer these factors into the genetic cloud of a
biologically diverse species? We aren't doing that with our crops using
selective breeding either. Of course does it really matter in a
domesticated variety of something that doesn't exist in a wild form in
that location?
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