Something like the plot of Jurassic Park eh?

Whenever (in a film) someone in a white coat says 'we have ensured that they cannot breed' - you just know that in the next ten minutes there are going to be eggshells, seed pods or cute squeaky infant monsters discovered.

With all the genetic research and DNA analysis going on there have been some odd discoveries, such as plants containing bits of DNA which resemble parts of animal genes. Some red colouration in plants is the result of there being mammal type blood redness in their genes.

That defies normal theories of evolution - unless - somewhere, there was a pale plant at the point of producing seed, spattered with mammal blood which somehow got involved in the process. Altered seeds which produced plants which were redder in some way that might have then been more attractive to insects - resulting in more altered seeds and - eventually some perplexed people in white coats.

It isn't just the magnets that bothers me - have you ever seen/smelt a battery recycling plant?

Bleugh!!

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

QUOTE=Bugbear;905656]Yes, Pleater, I understand, and I think we are mostly on the same wave length.

1. Where does a lot of the "rare earth" materiel for the magnets for all the electric cars et al come from?
2. They say they are now able to put a termination gene in the GM crops that keeps the pollen from being viable, or something like that. However, plants do swap genes through parasites, and more importantly, introducing a gene into the gene pool of an ecosystem can cause alleles to arise a little like a sympathetic vibration, or filling gaps created by the expantion of the gene pool.


It is all very, very complicated and unpredictable.[/QUOTE]