"just make sure the can't-make-seeds gene is dominant"
That sounds so easy. But what if that gene is recessive? Has Monsanto said whether the terminator gene is dominant or recessive? Is it only one gene or is it a whole collection of sequences scattered around the plants genome that need to be present? Do geneticists know how to make a recessive gene dominant? Could they make a dominant blue-eyed-person gene?
My point is that this conversation has wondered into discussing the merits of something that no one on the list knows much about. There are all kinds of assumptions being made. The assertion that a terminator gene will make GM plants safer in the environment is not a given.
We have a pile of Fibre Channel connected disk right here where I work. The product is the Sun A5000 arrays. At a relatively low level the fibre channel is some special high speed bus. But when you install the drivers in Solaris the fibre channel connected disk is presented to the operating system as a pile of SCSI controllers, targets and disks. It seems to me that regardless of the fact that the underlying bus is fibre channel, fire wire or smoke signals atleast one layer of abstraction is going to be SCSI.
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"just make sure the can't-make-seeds gene is
dominant"
That sounds so easy. But what if that gene is recessive? Has Monsanto said whether the terminator gene is dominant or recessive? Is it only one gene or is it a whole collection of sequences scattered around the plants genome that need to be present? Do geneticists know how to make a recessive gene dominant? Could they make a dominant blue-eyed-person gene?
My point is that this conversation has wondered into discussing the merits of something that no one on the list knows much about. There are all kinds of assumptions being made. The assertion that a terminator gene will make GM plants safer in the environment is not a given.
We have a pile of Fibre Channel connected disk right here where I work. The product is the Sun A5000 arrays. At a relatively low level the fibre channel is some special high speed bus. But when you install the drivers in Solaris the fibre channel connected disk is presented to the operating system as a pile of SCSI controllers, targets and disks. It seems to me that regardless of the fact that the underlying bus is fibre channel, fire wire or smoke signals atleast one layer of abstraction is going to be SCSI.