What kind of DNA is this?

[JulianKeller]

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[JulianKeller]

Is there even a natural way that we do this that can be expanded on? I heard that when we are in lakes we sometimes accidentally absorb fish DNA thru their poop and replicate for a few times and then goes back to our own base set dna.

 

By DNA I mean the genetic mapping of how everything in our body is built ;)

[Moontanman]

What kind of DNA or natural organic or organism compound can resequence itself to mimic the DNA of another organism?

 

A virus?

 

What kind of DNA or natural organism or organic compound can resequence itself either through instinct or consciousness?

 

As far as I know there is no process where an organism can consciously influence it's own DNA other than humans and genetic engineering.

 

Is it possible to absorb foreign DNA and replicate all or parts of their characteristics and activate them either selectively or randomly express the absorbed DNA in whole or in part in the organism that absorbed it from a foreign substance?

 

Virus have been shown to transfer DNA from one organism to another, is this what you mean?

 

I have seen a mouse with a human ear on its back, would someone tell me how that is done? That is one of the basis of why I am so interested in this. An still my questions are they even possible in science as we know it in the modern world, or what theories would most likely allow them to come true?

 

I've seen the mouse with a human ear on it's back, it was not genetic, the ear was artificial and the mouse was used to keep the ear alive and to allow the cartilage to grow into the shape of the ear scaffolding under the mouses skin.

 

I can envision a man who has lost an arm touching another person's arm of a similar type to his, and begin growing a new arm to regenerate his lost one. Buuuuuut that is just one of my weird and very scifi like dreams. I can also see someone absorbing the DNA of another man and through conscious thought mimicking the characteristic traits thru intuitive measures and 'growing in himself' the traits which would increase and better his own chance of survival, even removing the weaknesses of his own DNA. This would help a person with genetic disorders. Kind of like an incomplete puzzle that is put together by adding a piece from another puzzle that adds a new color to the spectrum but it still makes the puzzle whole and complete.

 

 

I cannot see how this could happen but with enough technology it just might.

[pamela]

hi Julian,

Not sure where you heard that misinformation on human recombinant fish DNA, but it is not possible. If it were, we would see a few Black lagoon monsters running around.;)

We can however, recombine DNA in the laboratory. Current uses for such an application are used in the medical field to provide treatments for disorders. Market products, such as Embrel, use recombinant dna from a chinese hamster to suppress the immune system in people with arthritis.This treatment does relieve the symptoms, but does not make you part hamster, even though it is absorbed into the subcutaneous part of the flesh.

To reproduce an appendage on a human would be an amazing feat. In the repilian kingdom, lizards are able to reproduce a tail if it is removed. But in humans, thought transference would not generate a limb. I imagine in the laboratory, the possibility of that happening may be good in the future.