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To: js1138
That would've required Monsanto to have hoodwinked the United States Patent Office in their patent # 4,940,835 (the Glyphosate tolerance trait in yellow dent corn)
281 posted on 10/18/2005 6:15:55 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky; js1138

js is correct. The trait is a bacterial trait transferred into corn.

Genetic engineering is intelligent designing, but it is not natural. If Creationists want to say we're all not natural, then I would like to hear it. But GM corn is no different than my new Welsh terrier puppy. He's the same species as my golden retriever, but obviously phenotypically different. Man has been altering agro crops and animals for thousands of years, "designing" strains with traits for particular purposes. It is not irreducibly complex since the traits are all natural in some way and just combined in different ways to form a more desirable product. The GM corn is just the next step - mixing traits between species instead of within the same species (like my dogs).


286 posted on 10/18/2005 6:27:04 PM PDT by furball4paws (One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)
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To: Mr. Lucky

It's a cloned gene inserted into a foreign species.


287 posted on 10/18/2005 6:28:26 PM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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