Re:The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now a...
by jedberg on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:57PM
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But you don't know that. Maybe they would randomly get that mutation in some generation that we would then breed for. All we're doing is speeding that up with science.
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Re:The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now a...
by nitwit005 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:20AM
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Probably only on a million year time frame. We've coated a decent portion of the Earth's crust in crops. It's all being irradiated by the sun all day long, decade after decade, but the mutations people want aren't always appearing naturally. Some changes appear to be extremely unlikely.
Which is probably good, or we'd all probably get weird cases of allergies from strange plant mutations.
Re:The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now a...
by colordrops on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:17AM
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How exactly would an apple "randomly" acquire a jellyfish gene?
Re:The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now a...
by adrianN on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:26AM
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The same way that fish eventually acquired the "lungs" genes.
Re:The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now a...
by crag on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:45AM
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//The same way that fish eventually acquired the "lungs" genes.
Which took a million years. But now watch out - we can do it in 4 hours. That's the difference.
Re:The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now a...
by colordrops on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:35AM
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That's not how it works. There are not one universal set of genes for "lungs". When two species develop a similar characteristic, the genes are still completely different.