The Genome of Your Thanksgiving Supper

An anonymous reader writes "Here's a fact you can distract your family with over the Thanksgiving table: many of the major ingredients in Thanksgiving foods have had their genomes sequenced. Biomedical researchers are interested in the turkey genome due to the animal's susceptibility to cancer; botanists are studying the genome of the Chinese chestnut to search for the root of its resistance to chestnut blight; and corn — well, corn's genome is just cool."

Comments

Re:No, corn is not cool

[countSudoku()]

You sound like my ex-wife. There's a reason for that. Some people have a knack at delivering an informative message. Guess who does not? Seriously, do you think the average person is as stupid as the industry that made the "corn 'sugar'" commercials? Give us some credit before you bash us over the head with a bag of non-GMO corn!? Thanks.

How about this? Just buy less of the kind of corn(and other products) you don't like, and give the stupid public the benefit of the doubt on whether they can choose a product that will not harm them, or just let them alone. We'll all put Monsanto out of the corn business forever, or not.

"Corn Nazis, I fucking hate these guys." -- Indiana Jones

Oh Yeah, That's Great

[Greyfox]

Unless you find out it's related to you because your great-great-great grandpa was the infamous "Turkey-Fucker Jones." Perhaps you should wait until after the gene sequencing results come back before you kill it...