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Scientists alter sexual orientation in worms
www.physorg.com ^ | 10/25/2007 | Staff

Posted on 10/26/2007 5:35:06 AM PDT by Red Badger

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They "made" Gay worms?....
1 posted on 10/26/2007 5:35:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Froufrou

Gay Worm Ping!...........


2 posted on 10/26/2007 5:36:06 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
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To: Red Badger

Next thing you know they’ll be wanting to marry.


3 posted on 10/26/2007 5:38:10 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (When gov't wants to fix something, chances are it was the gov't that broke it in the first place.)
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To: Red Badger

What’s the orientation of the scientists?


4 posted on 10/26/2007 5:39:14 AM PDT by period end of story (I have a bird that whistles, and I have birds that sing.)
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To: Red Badger

A new kind of “mini gerbil”?


5 posted on 10/26/2007 5:39:17 AM PDT by Nextrush (Proudly uncommitted in the 2008 race for president for now)
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To: period end of story

Standing or sitting. Maybe bent over every now and then. Prostrate at night............


6 posted on 10/26/2007 5:40:35 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
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To: Red Badger
just goes to show it didn't happen naturally.....
The scientists had to make it happen...
7 posted on 10/26/2007 5:40:46 AM PDT by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk. I Will Be Voting for Mr. Duncan Hunter, fellow FReepers.)
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To: Red Badger

"If you can't say something nice, don't say nuthin' at all."

8 posted on 10/26/2007 5:41:48 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (Islam is to Religion as Taco Bell is to Mexican food)
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To: Red Badger

9 posted on 10/26/2007 5:46:06 AM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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There’s a band called “Gay Worms”?........


10 posted on 10/26/2007 5:50:56 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
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To: Red Badger

Hahaha. On every topic in the world the prevailing PC view is that nurture must take dominance over nature EXCEPT when it comes to homosexuality. That is a case where the PC view is nature MUST be dominant over nurture. The search for the gay gene continues... or like Global Warming, is the debate now over? ;-)


11 posted on 10/26/2007 5:51:45 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: Red Badger

First, worms are naturally hermaphrodite, or bisexual. Second, are these researchers equating homosexuals with worms?


12 posted on 10/26/2007 5:56:38 AM PDT by expatpat
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These hermaphrodite worms are designed to have both sexes in their genetic makeup, for survival purposes. If you delete the one sex, it is not surprising that the one that is left becomes dominant..............


13 posted on 10/26/2007 5:58:34 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
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...are these researchers equating homosexuals with worms?

Nematodes, or C. elegans, are millimeter-long (one twenty-fifth of an inch) worms that live in soil and eat bacteria. Because the same genes are found in many animals, nematodes, mice, zebrafish and fruit flies often are used as “models” for humans in research.

14 posted on 10/26/2007 6:05:43 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
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To: Red Badger

My comment was tongue-in-cheek.


15 posted on 10/26/2007 6:08:16 AM PDT by expatpat
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First, worms are naturally hermaphrodite, or bisexual.

This species of worm have both hermaphrodite AND male only types. Only 1 in 500 are male only. The hermaphrodites can reproduce on their own without need of a male, as the hermaphrodite has both eggs and sperm. The male only worms must seek out a hermaphrodite "female" in order to mate. They are not bisexual in that the hermaphrodites do not mate with other hermaphrodites in a male-female relationship......

16 posted on 10/26/2007 6:10:33 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
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17 posted on 10/26/2007 6:11:11 AM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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To: expatpat

Oh..............sorry............


18 posted on 10/26/2007 6:11:28 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
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To: Dumpster Baby

Send them this article. They ought to get a kick out of it! Their name chosen was “prophetic”.............


19 posted on 10/26/2007 6:13:06 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
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There’s a band called “Gay Worms”?........

In New York:


20 posted on 10/26/2007 6:15:18 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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