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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by indiecore on Monday October 29, 2012 @07:44AM (#4711831)
Bulls make more cows?
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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by gadders on Monday October 29, 2012 @09:20AM (#4712098)
You only need one to impregnate lots of cows.

I wonder what happens to the male offspring of Cows in India?

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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by hnriot on Monday October 29, 2012 @04:12PM (#4714225)
not if you want a reasonably distributed gene pool, diversity of genes is always a good idea
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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by gadders on Monday October 29, 2012 @11:40PM (#4715906)
Well, yes. You don't want one bull to do 100% of cows, but one bull can easily do an entire herd, and using In Vitro methods the most valuable bulls fertilise thousands of cows.
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