Tuesday, September 30, 2014

DNA AND RNA

The central dogma is used as support for believing that genetically modifying food has only predictable consequences. This article makes a convincing argument that the central dogma cannot be used as a supporting argument for that claim. The entire cell is responsible for the inheritance mechanism, and so transplanting DNA has unpredictable consequences if we ignore all of the other proteins and enzymes in the cell as necessary parts of the inheritary process.

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