HIV is a virus that does something to antibodies (denatures them or something, I can't remember) so they can't destroy it. It also mutates incredibly fast (adaptation anyone?). Leukemia is a cancer caused by out-of-control white blood cell growth, if I remember correctly it means "white blood" or something like that in Greek.
C'mon, I was in bio a year ago, you should remember this better than me 😛
Originally posted by Lana
I never mentioned cloning though, so why did you quote my post?And yes, there's already evidence, but many people don't believe it still, and DNA sequences to back it up would make it pretty much incontravertable. Like Tpt said, you want proof of evolution? Here it is.
I didn't realize I had quoted you,sorry.
Umm, well first off, Bilb, the way you called it a personal belief system makes it sound like you're referring to it as a religion, which pisses me off, because it is NOT a religion. Not by any long shot.
Why would I be happy if more proof of evolution is found? I'm not the kind of person who believes something blindly, I make my decisions on what I find to be true based on evidence and research. There's enough evidence already for me to believe evolution is true, but it is still only a theory and there are still gaps in our knowledge of it. Such evidence, such as DNA that links dinosaurs and birds (which this T-Rex tissues could provide) would go a long ways in filling in gaps in what we know. Science is ever-changing, and the more evidence we have, the better.
(btw, don't take the first paragraph to mean that I'm pissed at you, I just really hate when people try to pass off evolution as a religion.)
Originally posted by MC Mike
Very good news for evolution, as stated. 😄
Originally posted by Tptmanno1
or....
Cow and strawberry..
mmm berryburger....But DR, I DO that adding reptile DNA would work, You could, theoroeticly, create and Ape from Human DNA, if you had the technology to contol which genes were being expressed, becuase Human DNA, isn't that different, from anything really, its just how and what parts of the really long DNA strand is being expressed, its how cancer works, the DNA gets screwed up and somehow, the DNA segment that codes for Bone tissue, starts growing in your brain.
I guess you could go in and alter the genetic structure of a human to have reptile DNA in it, but it would still be nearly impossible. I thought people were meaning you could cross a dinosaur and a human, but I think even if you physically spliced the two DNA strands together it wouldn't work... You might get something to grow out of it, but I doubt it would live long. While human and dino DNA aren't that different, that doesn't mean you could cross them with any ease—we're 56% genetically identical to bananas, but that would be sorta like the dogberry/berryburger scenario 😉
In other words, two organisms have to have nearly identical DNA to be able to reproduce. I imagine dinosaurs and humans have very similar genetic material, but it's still not close enough.