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Cat Joins Exclusive Genome Club (Abyssinian Cat Cinnamon Has DNA Decoded Alert)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7073194.stm ^ | 11/01/2007 | BBC News

Posted on 11/01/2007 3:36:43 PM PDT by goldstategop

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Cinnamon Genome Cat Bump

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1 posted on 11/01/2007 3:36:45 PM PDT by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop

Perhaps they’ll find the gene for mooching and then learn how to correct it in humans.

(Shhhhh . . . don’t tell my cats I said that!)


2 posted on 11/01/2007 3:50:43 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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Maybe if they decoded this fella's DNA, they'd find out where Viking Kitties originated:

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3 posted on 11/01/2007 4:03:33 PM PDT by randita
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A dreamer of pictures, she runs in the night, chasing the moonlight, that cinnamon cat.

Just adding, not pinging.

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4 posted on 03/10/2008 8:50:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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Cool. I'll take a couple.

5 posted on 03/10/2008 8:57:47 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: goldstategop
Hmmm, maybe they'll get to the bottom of whatever it was afflicting/affecting Lewis...

Psycho kitty terrorizes Connecticut neighbors

6 posted on 03/10/2008 9:02:12 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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I just hope they don't clone him. The last thing we need are copycats.


7 posted on 03/10/2008 10:48:08 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
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8 posted on 03/10/2008 10:53:00 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (Just how will wrecking the U.S. economy save the planet?)
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9 posted on 03/10/2008 11:14:41 AM PDT by Fawn
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IS THAT FROM TODAY’S 2008 CAT CALENDAR???

< |:)~

(last Thursday’s was pretty good, too)


10 posted on 03/10/2008 11:24:47 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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l o l


11 posted on 03/10/2008 11:25:03 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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“One thing I’d like to discover is the genes for good behaviour in the cats - the genes for domestication, the things that make them not want to kill our children but play with them,” he added.

Dude, I can tell you that one right now. It’s the gene that makes them 10 times smaller than us. If the size ratios were reversed, we’d be prey. It’s not that they don’t *wan’t* to eat us, it’s that they’re at a loss to drag our carcasses up a tree for safe snacking. Nothing more.

But look out if they ever evolve opposable thumbs. Then we’ll have outlived our usefulness as their servants. :-D


12 posted on 03/10/2008 12:50:31 PM PDT by Titan Magroyne ("Shorn, dumb and bleating is no way to go through life, son." Yeah, close enough.)
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To: goldstategop

bump


13 posted on 03/10/2008 12:52:30 PM PDT by VOA
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Abyssinians make fine cats. We could use a few more copies.


14 posted on 03/10/2008 10:11:01 PM PDT by kittycatonline.com
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