[realpatriot71]

I wasn't speaking about cloning, but about the addition of extra DNA to a species so that, that species produces a certain gene product. This isn't cloning. There is still much to be worked out in cloning, and I don't see how it is even a viable moral option to be cloning humans at this time.

[gore3000]

I wasn't speaking about cloning, but about the addition of extra DNA to a species so that, that species produces a certain gene product.

Yes, it is different, but you see this new research shows the problem with "local" changes also. The problem is that genes are not individual entities, they are part of a whole. They also have more duties than are immediately apparent. We may change a gene which we know performs a certain function, but we do not know what other functions it is performing and what connections those functions have towards other genes.