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What would happen if you injected watermelon DNA into a Lion?
>>7723910
Obviously every organism contains the same DNA, so the lion's body would just look at the DNA and do a reverse transcription of the contents to figure out where to add or remove methyl groups on its own genes. Then it would grow into a watermelon over time. That's evolution, you are what you eat.
A better question would be, how long would it take of artificial selection to turn a lion into a watermelon plant.
millions of years?
how would you even do that?
>>7723919
Feed the population only watermelon, and make sure their entire environment is just watermelon trees and shrubs.
Eventually everything would even out.
>>7723915
>Obviously every organism contains the same DNA, so the lion's body would just look at the DNA and do a reverse transcription of the contents to figure out where to add or remove methyl groups on its own genes.
Is that actually true?
It's that easy to insert genes and give certain creatures traits others have?
Why aren't we doing this all the time?
>>7723931
>Is that actually true?
As a whole, no. I feel a bit obligated to tell you I was kidding.
However, there are cases where certain organisms, even those very distantly related, will share a large number of fully functional genes with a small set of initial constructors mutated or deactivated causing them to not be triggered or accessible during development.
Most humans could probably still grow their tail if this pathway was repaired (when they were still but a zygote).
>>7723934
Okay then.
Let's say this pathway was repaired and you injected watermelon genes into a lion zygote, what would realistically happen?
>>7723939
Don't know, but I'd like to know.
>>7723942
Yes it seems very interesting.
>>7723919
Get an AI to find the lions who have the most in common with a watermelon
Good thread OP
>>7723910
You'd get a watermelion.
>>7723922
>watermelon trees
kek'd
>>7723910
Literally nothing. What do you think a virus is?
Look up PGLo though. That's probably what you're thinking of
>>7723922
that just creates niggers
>>7723939
It would probably just be degraded by nucleases. A better question would be what would happen if you insert watermelon DNA into lion chromosomes. It obviously depends on what kind of DNA you insert, but if you wanted to let's say express a protein from water melon in lion cells you'd probably have to add a lion promoter and terminator to the DNA insert, and you'd have to make sure the insert doesn't get coiled up in heterochromatin forever.
>>7723910
A delicious surprise.
Africans would be confused
>>7723910
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqKZRJN2Nr8
Fun fact, there are aphids with pigments encoded by plant dna. Literally plant dna in the aphids makes them that kind of green.
Depending on how much DNA, and where you injected it, the lion might die.
>>7723934
So, genetically engineered cat-girls for domestic ownership are possible if we inject them with some DNA from a cat when they are a zygote?
>>7725884
underrated post
you get a watermelion
