20th April 2006, 4:17 AM
Didn't you read Jurassic Park? BILLIONS of code man! ***billions*** in EACH nucleotide! :D I think anyways, of which there are BILLIONS as well and each and every code or signal is just as important as the last, I mean while you might find a a bad code you'd have to remove it on a molecular level without disturbing the rest of the nucleotide (which I think form in threes, each containing billions of code). so if you pop one off, the other two will probably deform and attach to other cells (creating massive retardation) or just float and become useless and you just removed the genome that allows for the production of neurons during gestation which means you cant have kids ever - poof there goes your heritage, I mean that's how fragile it is. I'm sure in 50 to 100 years we're gonna be able to deform the sugars and aminos in advanced gene therapy to remove something disasterous (like a strain of code that carries cancer, or blocked/self-destructive code), can totally see that happening. But not willy-nilly hey lets make our selves perfect when we have no idea what that even means, oops my son cant form a backbone because I wanted thicker hair, yunno? All bad.
I think what's important for people to realize is that we are perfect right now. Unfortunately we eat fast food which actually compoounded chemicals that resemble food, subject ourselves to bizzare often man-made toxins, hell did you know that if you eat chocolate over a period of 20 to 30 years you can actually alter some of your DNA? or being exposed to various types of radiation from televisions to radio waves and just owning a microwave in your house or not recieving enough melatonin during sleep cycles because we dont sleep in absolute blackness, etc all of that can cause slight retardation in the genome and it's all 100% avoidable. So I think we'lll become a healthier animal as a way to prevent disease/perpeuation of disease/retardation before we actually start playing with the single most important aspect of all life on earth.
wiki's got fun stuff about DNA and I think my knowledge of it is pretty up to date but i'm reading through it now, section 9 has a whole thing on the first seperation and discovery which is neat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
I think what's important for people to realize is that we are perfect right now. Unfortunately we eat fast food which actually compoounded chemicals that resemble food, subject ourselves to bizzare often man-made toxins, hell did you know that if you eat chocolate over a period of 20 to 30 years you can actually alter some of your DNA? or being exposed to various types of radiation from televisions to radio waves and just owning a microwave in your house or not recieving enough melatonin during sleep cycles because we dont sleep in absolute blackness, etc all of that can cause slight retardation in the genome and it's all 100% avoidable. So I think we'lll become a healthier animal as a way to prevent disease/perpeuation of disease/retardation before we actually start playing with the single most important aspect of all life on earth.
wiki's got fun stuff about DNA and I think my knowledge of it is pretty up to date but i'm reading through it now, section 9 has a whole thing on the first seperation and discovery which is neat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA