From: Franklin Wayne Poley (culturex@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Sun Aug 27 2000 - 13:23:26 MDT
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> >The following critique of the current Ag/Bio GM technology and its
> >implementation was forwarded to me on an "anti-GM" mailing list:
> >
> > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~dcandmkw/ge/gebrown.htm
> >
> >I'd be very curious to see what sort of reaction it sparks from folks here
> >who are more knowledgable about molecular biology.
>
> The article is correct in all its scientific details, as far as I can
> tell. I minored in Biochemistry in college and learned some
> gene-splicing technologies which are now out of date.
Harvey:
You are far more up-to-date than me with my doctoral area defense
and dissertation in behaviour genetics from 1971. Could you please tell us
how the A-G, T-C sequence in DNA profiling compares to the older notion of
a "gene profile"? Is a gene locus now an AREA on the double helix with a
number of A-G, T-C sequences? Is an allele more than one A-G, T-C set?
FWP
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