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Plants May Be Able To Correct Mutated Genes

Posted by timothy on from the early-stages dept.

ddutt writes "NY Times is running a story that talks of an exciting new discovery, which, if confirmed, could represent an unprecedented exception to Mendel's laws of inheritance. The discovery involves.. 'plants that possess a corrected version of a defective gene inherited from both their parents, as if some handy backup copy with the right version had been made in the grandparents' generation or earlier.'"

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  1. Intelligent Design by pablonhd · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why it so unacceptable to introduce the idea of "Intelligent Design" when everything about life is so structured and orderly?

    Why is chance so much more believable?

    1. Re:Intelligent Design by pablonhd · · Score: 0, Troll

      If you came across a sand castle on a beach is your first reaction to say that the wind and waves created it. Or do you belive that something intelligent created it?

      The more macro and micro we look at things all we find is structure and order.