Comment by devwastaken
7 months ago
“im youtube educated so its okay that for profit corps play around with genetics they know nothing about”
burden is on you to demonstrate that we somehow have anywhere close to a good theory of how genetics work. we dont, it doesnt exist, because we dont know. your friends paychecks dont care much for science.
Genes code for production of protein. Protein have a specific, usually very narrow function. There's a lot of cases where a gene you want to add doesn't work right because of the difference between the organism it comes from and the one you're transplanting it to, but there isn't much of a way for it to have unpredictable results.
E.g. if you add a gene coding for an enzyme that turns molecule A into molecule B, most of the time there simply isn't a way for it to do anything, and the organism will usually adjust production of molecule A to compensate, so that there's barely even the tiniest difference other than it now producing molecule B.