Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Biological Breakthrough: Mutated Zebra Fish


The scientists, are now able to clone fish, with a pretty good understanding of what will come out of it. They do this by dumping a male fish into the chemical mutagen ethylnitrosourea. Then when offspring are produced, the embryos are mutated. and after born, a mutated fish is produced.

I feel that this is a pretty big biological breakthrough in the cloning field. However, I cant predict an outcome of the whole thing. The idea of cloning and mutating fish is just something that is very new to this society in my opinion. But, i think the scientist's know what their doing, and by doing this it can be done for a good cause.

http://www.fi.edu/qa98/biology/journals/part6.html

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