"Jim Webster" wrote
"Tim Tyler" wrote:

Mutations that arise in nature tend to be systematically different from
taking genes from one organisms and transferring them into an unrelated
one.

The latter technique is more powerful.

As a consequence of the greater power, there is more scope for things
going wrong.

except that there are an almost infinite number of mutations arising
naturally all the time, whereas how many gm ones are there?

Insertions of arbitrary information are allowed in both cases.

Inevitably blind chance will throw up more powerful mutations than GM

Use of intelligent design and engineering can usually produce results
more quickly than trying solutions at random.

The tools available to genetic engineers are a superset of those
nature uses.

*As well* as point mumations, inversions, etc, they can (e.g.) take
existing genes from a glowworm, and insert them into a mouse -
something that would
not normally happen in nature.
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TT