"Franz tried to confuse me ( don't take much)


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.

Yes, I am quite sure of that. A mutated gene is a gene which is not the
gene which existed at that spot before the mutation occurred. It is
therefore a new gene which exists at that spot after the mutation has
occurred. It may express itself in a way which bears no obvious
relationship to the gene which originally occupied that spot.

We are splitting hairs here and are both correct if you think about it. :-)
There are no more genes after the mutation or change of one (or more) of
them.

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