MadSci Network: Genetics
Query:

Re: Is there a website showing DNA on a human/ape (caveman) which was created.

Date: Fri Aug 18 14:12:30 2000
Posted By: Michael Benedik, Faculty Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston
Area of science: Genetics
ID: 964813491.Ge
Message:

Sorry, but there is no such thing. There certainly are experiments going on 
where human DNA is introduced into ape cells, and the reverse. But these are 
done to cells growing in a petri dish in a laboratory. Such a hybrid 
organism has never been created. We just don't have the technology to do 
this yet, not even for simple organisms. Scientists could transfer a single 
or very small number of genes, but not create a genetic hybrid. 

Not only do we not have the technology yet, this type of experiment would be 
considered highly unethical for a scientist to do with human DNA.





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