Sorry, Karl, your confusing things. Thos is saying that selective
breeding should be counted as genetic engineering, whereas you are
extending his definition to include the attration that your parents felt...
Unless your parents were selectively bred like livestock to produce you,
I don't think you can make that case...  :-)
Elias
Karl Anderson wrote:
>ThosStew@aol.com writes:
>
>>Of course was genetic engineering. It used the fundamental mechanism of
>>genetics (inheritance of traits), and not randomly, but
>>intentionally--breeding for long fur, fat hams, whatever. The degree to which
>>the engineers--farmers, breeders--understood exactly how the mehcanism works
>>is only marginally relevant to the question of whether it was engineering.
>>
>>
>
>Naw, I still disagree, again because if I'm going to be so loose
>with the definitions, then I'd have to say that I myself am a
>genetically engineered organism.
>
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