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For the life of me I can't find the article but years ago I read an article called something like "Our Genes Are Not Us" in Discover or Scientific American maga
by chrisbennet 14y ago
For the life of me I can't find the article but years ago I read an article called something like "Our Genes Are Not Us" in Discover or Scientific American magazine. (I searched them without any luck.) Maybe someone else will have better luck finding the article.
The article mentioned that one of the problems with cloning a mammoth is duplicating the envitro environment as this controls the expression(1) of the genes. In other words, it isn't enough to have "the code", you also need the "computer" to run it on.
(1) A butterfly and a catepillar have the same DNA but it is expressed differently.