Wouldn't the chemical isolation of elements, as done in the 18th and 19th centuries, be a better analogy? Doing so required a human transformation, requiring sk

Wouldn't the chemical isolation of elements, as done in the 18th and 19th centuries, be a better analogy? Doing so required a human transformation, requiring skill, knowledge, and effort, yet would anyone patent an element? We are still creating new heavy elements in particle accelerators; are those patentable? If the argument is that the gene is modified in its isolation by changing the terminating amino acids, we could extend the analogy to include changes to the electron shell of an element brought about by chemical processes.