Re: Can human and plant DNA be combined?

Area: Genetics
Posted By: Jan Witkowski, Faculty. CSHL, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Date: Mon May 5 19:14:01 1997
Area of science: Genetics
ID: 862861331.Ge

Message:

Chemically they can be combined; that is, a piece of plant DNA can be
joined to a piece of human DNA. But if you joined the human genome to
the genome of a rose, you wouldn't get a rose with arms and legs, anymore
than putting it into a human egg would produce a human being with a rose
instead of head! For one thing, the developmental processes are so different
that it is unlikely to work. And it's a good thing too that R. L. Stine's
stories are fiction!

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