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Off Topic => Everything Else => Debate Den => Topic started by: Fink on August 08, 2007, 11:06:13 am
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17937813/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17937813/)
That is really strange.
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But really, who wants to make love to bone marrow?
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wow thats really amazing. could you use like.. your own bone marrow sperm stuff? like if you wanted to be a single mother.
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Is Fink trying to tell us something? :P
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wow thats really amazing. could you use like.. your own bone marrow sperm stuff? like if you wanted to be a single mother.
That would be cloning, and it has a strange set of biological and ethical issues surrounding it.
The idea of fertilizing an egg with an X chromosome pulled from female bone marrow sounds promising though, even if it does mean that males could go extinct...
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wow thats really amazing. could you use like.. your own bone marrow sperm stuff? like if you wanted to be a single mother.
That would be cloning, and it has a strange set of biological and ethical issues surrounding it.
The idea of fertilizing an egg with an X chromosome pulled from female bone marrow sounds promising though, even if it does mean that males could go extinct...
but i can do it, right?
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In theory, yes, you could. But you'd need several million dollars and a rag tag gang of genetic biologists.
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and then the baby might be all crazy lookin :O
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If this happened then the future people would all have very similar genes, like plants that asexualy reproduce, the entire population would be suseptable to a single desease.
I know it's unlikely but so is humans being able to asexually reproduce with science.
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the entire population would be suseptable to a single desease.
Hell, if the ancients figured out how to make seedless bananas thousands of years ago, I'm sure we'll figure this out within the next 100 years.
btw, the entire banana population might be gone in 10 years....except iceland's bananas. So move to iceland and eat bananas :D
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Funny you whould mention bananas, because that was what I was thinking about while reading this thread.
The bananas we eat produce no seeds and so must reproduce asexually meaning that the majority of bananas have the same genes, this means that if one banana is suseptable to a desease then they all are.
If humans start to asexualy reproduce then we will suffer the same fate.
Biodiversity is important for survival.
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Is Fink trying to tell us something? :P
Most certainly not. (;