Brit-Am Anthropology, DNA, and Creation Science Update
BAMAD-166
Brit-Am Anthropology and DNA Update
https://hebrewnations.com/features/bamad/bamad165.html
Contents:
1. Many plants are naturally GMO, research finds
BY JOAN CONROW
2. How nature itself uses genetic modification
3. Japanese, Manchus and Koreans
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1. Many plants are naturally GMO, research finds
BY JOAN CONROW
https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2019/10/many-plants-naturally-gmo-research-finds/#:~:text=Dozens%20of%20plants%2C%20including%20bananas,sweet%20potatoes%20are%20naturally%20transgenic.
Though much of the controversy around genetically modified crops is driven by the belief that the process of moving genes from one species to another is 'unnatural,' new research shows some 1 in 20 flowering plants are naturally transgenic.
Dozens of plants, including bananas, peanuts, Surinam cherries, hops, cranberries and tea, contain the Agrobacterium microbe, the very same bacterium that scientists typically use to create GM crops. The research follows on the heels of the 2015 discovery that sweet potatoes are naturally transgenic. Agrobacterium DNA also has been found in tobacco plants.
The findings were reported in a paper published Sept. 21 in the journal Plant Molecular Biology. Researchers studied the genomes of some 356 dicot species and found 15 naturally occurring transgenic species. 'Thus, HGT [horizontal gene transfer] from Agrobacterium to dicots is remarkably widespread,' the abstract stated.
As Michael Le Page wrote in New Scientist:
It has also been discovered that the horticultural process of grafting different plants together can lead to the exchange of genes, meaning humans have inadvertently been creating transgenic plants for millennia. From genome studies, we can see that gene swapping has been going on since the dawn of life.
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2. How nature itself uses genetic modification
Anthony Trewavas &
Christopher Leaver
Nature volume 403, page12 (2000)
https://www.nature.com/articles/47345
Some estimates suggest that the genome of some cereals may contain up to 50% retrotransposons; transposons contain end regions that are hot spots for recombination using transposase.
It is important to recognize that all the food we eat has been (and is) continuously genetically engineered by natural phenomena in ways that do not differ in any fundamental way from the current GM technology. Natural genetic modification of wheat3 and rice, for example, enabled the breeding of dwarf crops, used to feed many millions in the 'Green Revolution'.
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3. Japanese, Manchus and Koreans
https://www.statnews.com/2019/05/22/dna-ancestry-sites-gather-data-shifting-answers-consumers/
What people don't know is East Asian ethnic group like Japanese, Manchus and Koreans share common ancestry. They were from same offsprings just about 1500~2000 years ago not even 3,000 years. Anyone who has one of above three Northeast Asian ethnic in ancestral line, will end up somewhat related to Japanese or Korean.