May 03, 2012Its sound like someone who has a sevre case of the Stomach Bug lol....
As far as what David said, yes the DNA of most things is like a puzzle like a house made of lego bricks where by changing some of the bricks will make changes.
We are not yet advanced enough to make great changed to it, but i think if Science had more budget and no morales (who says we ant playing Gods right now) then yes we could change a persons DNA.
We may not be able to change the DNA of a living person so much, but its not beyond reality for now and soon for us to be able to take a embryo and change its genetic code, so we can decide what hair colour, what eye colour, how tall they grow how fat etc etc.
Also near enough every living creatures embryo at its first stages are the same.
[img]http://home.honolulu.hawaii.edu/~pine/book1qts/embryo-compare.jpg[/img]
Notice above, the embryo takes on the genetics from its host its mother in the womb.
DNA and apearence wise you could take the early stage emybro from 10 different creatures and they would be very simular, but when the Embryo grows and its birthed they would look different and the DNA would be different (but still simular)
It could be possible in future to take a cows early stage embryo and replace it into a pregnant horses and maybe we would see the cow embryo take on some traits of the horse.
This is pretty much how the Xeno Organism worked, its Embryo had a lot of its Xeno code but then takes on code from its host.
The Organisms in Prometheus can maybe manipulate the DNA on the fly and thus change one Organism into another.
Instead of the way in nature its done at the Embryo stage.
There are in a Chicken genetic markers in the DNA that are turned off for Teeth, and Scales. So in theory you could create a Chicken that has no feathers but scales and has teeth and if you could then find the differences DNA wise from a Chicken to a Emu, you could maybe in theory create what would look like a Dinosaur.
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