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!
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