On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 03:49 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
> It's quite a bit more than natural selection; the times had a
> fascinating article a few months back (possibly posted as bits here)
> that note that one Holstein bull who died in the 70s is paternally
> related to something like 40% of the world's cattle. That's way, way
> more than natural selection, and (given the difficulty and expense of
> isolating specific genes for size, industrial-living-ness, etc.) more
> expansive than raw gene manipulation will be for some time.
http://www.absglobal.com/
They know bull semen, and the burger you ate at lunch may have had its
sire's contribution to its genetics purchased through them.
My ex-wife worked in their lab for a year while I was in gradual school.
We had boxes of masking tape from ABS pre-printed with the names and
serial numbers of 'decomissioned' bulls.
They are also known for the hideous puns on their sign just outside of
Madison on I90/94. But the puns haven't been any good since the secretary
who first wrote them retired.
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