Sperm and eggs are no longer the only types of cells that can be used in reproduction.
Now double helix of chromosomes
Can be propagated from somatic homes!
This breaking news is yet another plank
Of evidence for evolution’s high rank
In life’s relentless drive for avenue.
Before, like water, seeking lower venue,
Now, like electrons in silicon path,
Chaperoned by science and higher math.
Is biology changed with these findings?
Will science, ethics get new unwindings?
No. Life reproduction, as we know the craft,
Simply adds to sex, skills of dna graft.
Next step in this breathless chain
Of progress in the bionic plane,
Could be an intracellular grafting fight,
Over genes being spliced left and right.
Will dna engineering resemble TV function,
Dna shattered in pixel-like reduction,
Subsequent reassembly in designer tone,
Here a piece added, there gone?
If so, life, full circle, has haunting refrain:
Lonely molecules joined for symbiotic gain,
Now systemic dna is broken apart —
And deftly reconstituted, a la carte!
i love the meter and rhyme in this outstanding *scary* write...science fiction is becoming science FACT...we don't need to be messin' where God's been messin'...or we're gonna be IN a mell of a hess. :) ((((HUGS)))) and love, karla. :)
Reviewed by Sara Wadington (Reader)
Reviewed on May 23, 2003
Excellent and Very thought provoking poetry!Awesome what can be done, learning more everyday...welcome to the future! yep... beam me up~~:)
Leland, very well written. The world moves at such a fast pace that most technologies tend to pass us by without our awareness. We become obsolete at birth. I wonder, will teleportation ever become reality. That's enough thinking for today. Beam me up Scotty.
Our human genome is full of viruses similar to HIV-1. These have played an important role in human evolution and still play an important role in human embryology and day-to-day chemistry. Just how important are they to our evolution past and future?
Our human genome is full of viruses similar to HIV-1. These have played an important role in human evolution and still play an important role in human embryology and day-to-day chemistry. Just how important are they to our evolution past and future?
Where do viruses, such as Ebola and HIV, come from and why they are so aggressive? This book changed tenets of evolutionary virology, developing the concepts of aggressive symbiosis and plague culling, which explain much of the horror of plague virus
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Peace,
Dove
Peggy
~Nikki~
Chrissie