Bob Hobden writes

"Franz wrote in message

Can't you understand the difference between natural mutation and the
insertion of a completely foreign gene, one that would not get there
naturally?

Can't you understand that here is no gene more foreign than one which
results from a random natural mutation? The damn thing did not even
*exist*
before.

Are you sure on that? I though a mutated gene was one that simply changed
not came into spontaneous existance.

Eh? What is the difference between that 'changed' to give RR resistance,
and a gene added to give RR resistance?

Doubling of genes is not at all unheard of, in fact it's quite common.

And you don't seem to get to grips with the fact that around 999999
out of 1000000 natural mutations are deleterious and most of them are
removed by selection in subsequent generations.

Will that happen with GM then? No,

Yes. It's a gene like any other.
Only continual selection keeps the genes as you want them for a crop
plant.

so why mention it.

Just to point out that mutations are as common as muck, and always have
been. That is unpredicted and unpredicatable changes have been the
normal course of events for life from at least 1,000,000,000 years.

Strangely the world hasn't ended.

--
Oz
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