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- From: ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
- Newsgroups: misc.rural
- Subject: Re: Strange Idea
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:30:08 GMT
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- Robert Frederick Enenkel (enenkel@cs.toronto.edu) wrote:
- > Not all that strange. I know there are papers on breeding Carp for
- > reduced number of intramuscular bones. If I remember correctly, all
- > they did there was to select the most favourable individuals and breed
- > them together, then do the same with their offspring, etc. This is
- > also the process that produced Koi (Japanese Coloured Carp) from common
- > carp, the occasional natural mutation of which had some colouration.
- >
- > Isn't that the only way to produce desired traits in any animal?
- > (Except, I suppose, by doing strange things to the DNA using radiation...)
- >
- Even then, you'd still have to select for the desired traits. Radiating the
- gametes would just increase the number of available mutations. Also, there
- is some gene-splicing work going on, although the only practical applications
- that I'm familiar with involve bacteria. Hold onto your seats, 'though,
- gene-spliced mammals probably aren't too far off.
-