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Originally Posted by vinaur
I consulted a chemistry teacher and he gave me a rather reasonable explanation for DNA 2.0. So what he said is that DNA 2.0 has sort of like a library of genes, which they got from organisms that have undergone a mutation and were expressing a certain trait. DNA 2.0 took that organism's DNA cut it up into genes and figured out which one was responsible for the trait. The only reason that I would not believe this explanation is because they actually say on the site that you can custom order your own genes....
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Nah, the custom order works like this, you pay them $1 a base pair, give them the sequence you want. They make it for you. Now $1 a base pair seems cheap. But to do anything even basic, like create a simple protein, that's a couple thousand dollars. As it gets bigger, it gets harder, hence the $1 a base pair. The problem of course if getting the correct gene sequence to use, and also being able to insert that sequence into dna at the correct point. Since genes really just control things like protein production, we really don't know their effects in complex organisms, well anything more complex than single cellular. So that's why we don't see people with lizard skin, although there was a glowing goldfish once.