On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 23:46:15 -0600 connie hoy
<coneh@uswest.net> writes:
> (I dont recall ever hearing of a dog being crossed with a cat for
> example let
> alone a fish)When odd ball crosses did occur i.e.a horse to a mule
> the mule
> is sterile
Dean,
Red faced about the Mule/donkey error I do know that ,brain got ahead
of my typing speed..
Also thanks for your explaination /views of Gene Science...It did help
me look at it from a different angle.
Connie
<snip>One point of correction: a mule is the result of a mating between
a female horse and a male donkey (jackass, burro, etc.). The offspring
of a male horse and a female donkey is called a hinny. When we're
talking about something on a genetic level, this is really getting down
to the building blocks, the ingredients, of life. Geneticists
are working with bits and pieces of matter the same size or smaller than
individual cells. These microscopic bits of the Universe aren't "pigs"
or "cucumbers," they're "Gene 2041 which is resistant to Fusarium Wilt"
and so forth. It's all being done on microscope slides, goats aren't
being forced to mate with tomatoes or anything, this isn't Dr. Frankenstein
combing the cemeteries for parts (at least that anyone's making public...).
