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Hot Potato
Genetically modified potato with hot pepper taste. | |
Peppers and Potatoes are fairly close relatives, so Genetic Engineering between them should be relatively easy.
Modify potatoes so that the tubers include capsaicin so that when frenched and fried you get spicy chips! Yum!
Edit: Oh, fine. use fairly standard gene splicing techniques to insert
the csy1 gene into the area of the potato genome responsible for starch production.
My inspiration!
Peanut_20Butter-filled_20Apple2
Well, actually an annotation by [normzone] there is my inspiration. [Galbinus_Caeli, Jul 18 2007, last modified Jul 19 2007]
Edwardo Kac's dayglo rabbit
http://www.ekac.org...html#gfpbunnyanchor
wonderful ! [xenzag, Jul 19 2007]
Spider Goat
http://news.bbc.co....sci/tech/889951.stm
[zen_tom, Jul 19 2007]
Missing x
http://www.newton.d...ole00/mole00043.htm
[normzone, Jul 20 2007]
Epee'
http://en.wikipedia...wiki/%C3%89p%C3%A9e
[normzone, Jul 20 2007]
Careful with that X, you gene!
http://www.youtube....watch?v=r3R2PgMiTvw
[jutta, Jul 20 2007]
[link]
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we do G_C but I think we avoid GM |
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See the help file, over there on the left under "meta". |
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<Dons best Schwarzenegger accent> |
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This is what happen's when idiot's want to mess with nature!
What next? A sheep crossed with a lemon so it's wool smells nice?! |
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What next? A sheep crossed with a lemon
so it's wool smells nice?! - how about a
rabbit crossed with a jellyfish ? |
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Or a goat/spider combination? |
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[jutta] - genetic engineering is not magic. If you are going to MFD this, do it for pun or flavor. |
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Cross-breeding would probably yield better results. |
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The "magic" tag means not that the technology is actually magic, but that it is used "as" magic - it's complicated, the author doesn't know how to do it and really doesn't want to know; it's just fun to think about what would happen if it were possible. Mhhh, lemony sheep. |
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Hybrids might be interesting - both plants are of the nightshade family - except that peppers are fruit, while potatoes are, of course, tubers. What part of the combination are we planning on eating? |
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Damn. It sure has been an interesting day. My horoscope didn't say anything like this. |
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Potatoes store starch in the tuber, so if we insert the csy1 gene there, it should make spicy tubers. |
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Fair 'nuff - I've removed the mfd. |
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does that mean I can revive my zebra
fur, barking rat idea ? - (starts holding
breath epectantly, as wall of gene splice
ideas rises up edge of dam ready to
flood valley below, with hundreds of
unwary innocents fleeing in blind terror) |
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[epectantly] - Does that mean you're holding your breath AND an epee' ? |
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I just found the missing x - thought it
was a fly. |
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Careful what you do with that missing x, it may be important (link). |
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Wow, [jutta], that took me back a few years. |
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These potatoes would make good french fries, and I bet fast food chains would market them as new "spicy fries". |
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