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    Mutagenesis

    Farmers don't want to be uninformed NOR appear to be uninformed. Do we? Gad, I hate looking stupid again. So the best way is to read about

    "mutagenesis".

    Defined, it seems simple:
    noun
    the occurrence or production of mutation"

    Yup
    We want a mutation all right.

    Oops here's a different definition:


    "A process by which the genetic information of an organism is changed in a stable, heritable manner, either in nature or experimentally by the use of chemicals or radiation."

    Huh? Radiation? Chemicals?

    When in doubt, click on Wikipedia because Assange won't lie to farmers LOL:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutagenesis

    Oh? There are 5 different mutageneisi?

    5 ways to get mutants? Well, it looks like a piece of charliecake. LOL

    Directed mutagenesis
    Insertional mutagenesis
    PCR mutagenesis
    Signature tagged mutagenesis
    Site-directed mutagenesis
    Transposon mutagenesis


    I-yi yi

    Developing mutants using a whole bunch of different ways it loks like:
    radiation;
    a virus;
    by snipping out a patch;
    by deleting out a patch;
    by cutting and pasting a patch of gene;
    by jumping genes from one place to another;
    by cloning; etc etc

    Nothing to worry about. it's only GENES! And nobody will notice one TINY little snip.

    Sounds a normal way to pick out a dandy mutatation from a gene for future offspring.

    Mutagensis is intuitively simple, so we don't have to worry about alterations that are irreversible.

    Glad I read it charliep. I thought it was going to be something like genetically modifying.

    HuH? isn't it modifying and changing? I'm confused again. pars

    #2
    I agree that Mutagenesis is pretty much Genetic Modification. All be it, in a more random and unpredictable process. I don't think you can move genes between species through mutagenesis. That, I think is the reason it gets the free pass with the public.

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      #3
      So mutagensis is offside as well. Okay.

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        #4
        Hey Pars, I just saw a news item that 2 dogs mauled
        and Irish tourist to death on a Malaysian organic farm.
        They must have been mutagenics out for revenge, lol!

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          #5
          "tourist to death"

          Better not come for a visit.

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            #6
            Pars, I had a neighbour who had a sign at the front of
            the driveway - "Never mind the dogs - BEWARE of the
            wife!" I'd call ahead and arrange for neutral territory
            along with a police escort if I visited, lol!

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