Can you take inactivated human genes and create another animal from it?

Subject: Can you take inactivated human genes and create another animal from it?

Date: Wed Apr 25 16:46:46 2007
Posted by Elizabeth
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Area of science: Genetics
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If certain inactivated genes could be taken out of a person and reactivated,
could you form another creature with it? I'm very interested in biology, and I
saw an episode of startrek where a man transformed into a spider-creature when
some of those genes were turned on.

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