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Transgenics, the great evil that plagues the world (Part II) Transgenic

Anyone who knows a bit about biology knows what the mitosis (for the novice, a process in which a cell duplicates its genetic material obtained and then divided two daughter cells with the same genetic make the mother), and since we can imagine what would happen if a set of your chromosomes is different from other game. Not produce a correct mitosis (the pairing between homologous chromosomes in metaphase could not be carried out because these shine by their absence) and the living die, right?

For this is another case where truth is stranger than fiction: Plants have the amazing ability to duplicate the chromosomes without partners and create a mixture of both species and fully viable fertile in most cases. That is, if you mix a plant with a chromosome AA BB CC with a plant that have chromosomes DD EE FF (I put double letters to illustrate diploidy) meiotic products (pollen grains and eggs, so we understand) would be ABC and DEF. The fertilized egg does not know what the hell to do with it without thinking twice and duplicates what is on the loose creating a genotype (genetic code to the untutored) brand new, it would be AA BB CC DD EE FF. Indeed, we have doubled the number of chromosomes, they should walk in the nucleus as immigrants in a patera floor, but it works, throw palante post.

If that scares you, remember that most grains, fruits and vegetables you eat have more chromosomes than their wild counterparts. Many more, indeed. This was achieved Seedless watermelons, strawberries, plump, shiny or ears of corn with many more grains.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is reflected in global food production. Like it or not, GMOs are the future. The human population is growing so fast that sooner or later we need more efficient sources of food, as current as we know resources are finite. With transgenesis can not (unfortunately) make infinite, but we can pick them out a good that could keep more people. At this point I must express my opinion: In the world too many people AND , so the only thing that would be missing would be the increase in population due to increases in food production. However, transgenesis is a double-edged sword: With genetic engineering we can theoretically achieve a more efficient plant resources at their disposal, resulting in a lower ecological impact. Evidence of this are plants genetically modified to resist local diseases and pests, such as rye today, which is resistant to ergot (gone are the days of LSD and factories home of the hippies ... xD) or tomatoes that resist salt water irrigation. Even the most astute could see that it is an advantage not having to use pesticides (Both economic and environmental) or not to waste water in semi-desert areas near the sea (as may very well Murcia).

We are working on researching a lot lately with biofuels, genetically modified plants or bacteria (usually) to produce alcohol or other compounds used as fuel. Result? Less production of greenhouse gases to discard the oil, clean air, and lower transport costs. All this sounds wonderful, but of course, must be further investigated.

But of course, would not be gold that glitters. We will see the other side of the coin in the next (and last) installment of this series. Greetings!

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, the great evil that plagues the world (Part I)

Well, I want to emphasize first of all to those who are not regular readers of this blog (ie my father, my colleagues and four kills more known) that the title is completely sarcastic, but do not intend to make any apology for what this article I transgenic untutored inform us what this word that the lips of many whose meaning is most known.

Starting from 0, I to say why I plan to write this entry. The fundamental reason is that I am to the very eggs hear some news if you're taking Nosecuantos new GM products, if very great social alarm that if your children eat out more foolish if you seedless watermelon or blue hair out asshole by eating GM cochineal Taiwanese-Caucasian. I also have the exploited using all this turmoil to raise cash, a brand of ice cream I saw advertised the other day that delights arguing that its products contained the new Satan genetic composition.

Some may think that what's wrong with a retailer advertise that their products are very natural: So one can choose whether to eat natural aberrations or not, right? But the problem is, as always, people are assholes, and I mean that asshole did not get the eggs of the matter. The clearest example can be seen in any forum on any given subject, in that instead of seeking noobs ask and ask without even realizing that another payo published exactly the same question a day earlier and is more than settled.

Well, for starters, I want to make clear what the word really means TRANSGENIC : A transgenic organism is one that carries one or more foreign genes in their genome, ie, a living being (or not, because even be a virus) that I have put a gene from another living being completely different (from other species, we) normally a purpose, such as, for instance, insulin production by Escherichia coli . E. coli is a bacterium found naturally, for example in the digestive tracts of humans and many other animals, eating from the food we eat, and providing in return Vitamin E and K and helping the successful completion of digestion.

E. coli is a model for many genetic research because it has been widely studied and its genome is known from beginning to end, and the many putadas body that have been made (metaphorically speaking of course, because the bacteria do not feel or have) one has been the introduction of the gene that produces human insulin in their own genetic code (I think in particular is usually implemented in a plasmid). Result? Bacteria that produce insulin independently, thus avoiding having to synthesize a tedious and costly biochemical process, with the cost savings that entails (not to speak of the importance of this for people without economic resources).

All you need is pots with growing medium, and they alone are responsible for doing the rest, ie, we have turned a bacterium in a plant insulin. At this point, I would say to those who cry out to heaven that God is not playing well, and to modify the animals that made the man is evil, that man has been playing God from the very moment when its up residence fat ass in a plain of Mesopotamia and began to eat the sheep-like thinning of small size, or that produced less milk, leaving alive the strongest and fat for males were verifications boots. That, gentlemen, is called ARTIFICIAL SELECTION , and is probably not far from what the most divine chose to create her beloved beasts (if it exists, of course). The same could be said of plants: You can mix two different species similar enough so that the pollen of one is capable of fertilizing the ovary of the other, but different from the end of the day in their genetic endowment.

How and why we will see in the next part of this article. Greetings!