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15014836 No.15014836 [Reply] [Original]

How do I genetically engineer animals to be better? To be stronger, faster, healthier or just produce more milk, meat or wool.

>> No.15014840

>>15014836
Eugenics aka selective breeding.

>> No.15014845

>>15014836
Computer algorithms. Dna synthesiser.

>> No.15016789

>>15014840
>selective breeding.
This is the easiest way.

>> No.15016803
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15016803

My thermodynamics professor was rumored to be trying to create a breed of arctic super cows. He kept cows in a dark barn with subfreezing temperatures for twenty something hours per day. Haven't seen any announcements about arctic super cows so either he failed or the whole thing was just students talking crap.

>> No.15016924

>>15016803
>That prof? Denisovich Lysenko!

>> No.15017569

>>15014836
>To be stronger, faster, healthier
At the cost of what?

>> No.15017853

>>15017569
Hard work, knowledge and material.

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>>15016803
>reinventing the wheel
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WHAT IS IT!?
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>> No.15019277

>>15014836
I think it's interesting how human beings have been manipulating the DNA of plants and animals long before we ever knew anything about it.

>> No.15019368

>>15019277
Calling eugenics "dna manipulation" is a propaganda campaign started by Monsanto in the early 2000s to make GMOs seem natural.