███████ ████████

[pseudomonas]

█ █████ ██████████ ██████████ █████████████████████████████████ ████ ███████ ██ █████ ██████ █████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ███ █████████ ███████ ██ ████████ █████ ███ ██ ███████ ███████ █ █████ ██████████ ███████ ████████████████████████████████████████████ ████ ████ ██ ████ █ █████ ███████████████████ ███████████ ███████████ ████ ████ ██ █ ███

Comments

[pseudomonas]

The cloning one is vague about "result from" - with nuclear transplant a fertilized egg is required, albeit not as a source of genomic DNA.

The chimp one: not clear whether it means coding DNA or includes non-coding DNA and/or heterochromatin. Also (and being more pedantic still), they mean same DNA sequence, not same DNA instance.

The embryos one I'd dispute whether it's genetics at all, and I wouldn't have known the answer if they hadn't been provided.

The eating GM fruit one is badly drafted, they mean "there is a significant risk that that same person's genes might be modified as a result".

I wonder how these were translated into other languages?

[kaet]

I wasn't sure about what they meant with the cloning one, as the thing cloned came from a sperm and egg, presumably, and wouldn't have been possible if it hadn't.

With the chimp one, too, I wasn't sure what they meant by half.

[pseudomonas]

That's the point, it should have said "always requires" or some such. Certainly many clones are done with conventionally-fertilized oocytes.

Animal/plants has even been done commercially they put some fish "antifreeze" gene into something a while back.

[lethargic_man]

And let's not forget luciferase; useful for finding your genetically-modified plant tissue in the dark...

[lethargic_man]

I thought nuclear transplant only required a mature oocyte to be the host, not a *fertilised* oocyte?

Isn't it possible to spoof it using calcium or cyclic AMP or something?