Rice as an example

Remember that if we harness the power of the atom we can get new foods!

Fukushima Vegetables Have Bizarre Tumor-Like Growths And Deformities: Is Nuclear Meltdown To Blame For Freaky Produce? [PHOTOS] - International Science Times



I had no idea that rice became wild after domestication. I do know they made a documetary about attack of the killer tomatoes.

 

I hear that now it only costs about $10,000 to sequence the genes in a simple organism like yeast, down from millions a few years ago. We should see many more sequencing discoveries, now that the technological costs have gone down.

Although Mendal didn't formalize genetics until the 19th century, farmers used genetic manipulation (artificial selection) to breed animals and crops that they preferred. We call that genetic manipulation domestication as talked about in the article.

Now the world seems upset about GMO, as if genetic manipulation was new. It is not. We just have gotten better at it. Whether it is "domestication" or "genetically modified organisms" the results may be good or bad. In the dust bowl, farmers ripped out the naturally selected plants and replaced them with genetically manipulated ones (domesticated crops), but these did not hold onto the soil and an environmental problem happened. Like this domesticated rice, some gmo crops if not made to not be fertile, may breed with wild types and other crop types and create better weeds.

retroviruses have also been around a long time. They simply were almost always bad Now some folks are trying to control them, but we are uncertain how this story will turn out.

Here is where man has created something entirely new and random. Evolution - descent with modification, had been controlled by natural mutations. Now in this scenario, the mutation were created through accidental radiation. This is a new world, with many scary possibilities.