RE: OT Plant cell biology

This was the original reply I sent asking Neil about some DNA posts. What
showed up on the list is not what my sent file shows my reply was. Really
strange, especially since I'd subsequently sent another reply to clarify a
something in this first reply. Wonder how or if it will show up.

Sorry if my machine is doing something spooky. I'm going off until I can
explore this.

---- Original Message -----
From: "Neil A Mogensen" <neilm@charter.net>
To: "Iris-talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:12 PM
Subject: [iris] OT: Plant cell biology


> Back in the early sixties I told the head of our local Biology department
at
> my undergrad alma mater I wanted to trace--or see traced--the sequence of
> events all the way from the DNA codes, which were just then filtering down
to
> our level, to the living organism.  He just laughed.
>
> "Neil," he said, "you were born about five hundred years too soon."
>
Neil, I don't even begin to understand most of this discussion but it
reminded me of an article I once read written by Rick Ernst. I've found and
reread it and still don't know. In layman's terms, does the work done by
Cooleys and OSU and the resulting patents on red iris figure in to this? Or
is that DNA testing different? Interesting but way over my head! The ideas
and discussion on this list are awesome and I feel lucky to even be able to
read the threads.

Sincerely,

Char in Idaho

Thanks.

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