Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recombinant DNA research, or, as it is nicknamed, gene-splicing, involves the combination of DNA, the basic material of heredity, from different organisms to create a hybrid organism with very different and unpredictable charcteristics. The DNA introduced into the experimental organism will dictate different genetic information when the organism reproduces, thus creating a different organism...
...experimentation is potentially hazardous largely because of its unpredictability; an experiment could result in bacteria which produce insulin or the creation of new strains of dangerous bacteria that resist antibiotics. Often, the DNA is inserted into the E. coli bacteria, which live in the human gut, but if these hybrid organism were to escape from the laboratory, they could enter the human body and resist its normal immunological defenses. To their credit, scientists engaged in this research were the first to sound the alarm in the early '70s. Lear traces the chain of events that led to regulation...
Adjustor is a hybrid position, known as monsterback in the midwest, which requires a player equally adept at guarding against the pass and run. Masterson always lines up on the strong side opposite the opposing team's tight end, which means most of the power running plays come his way, though he is also responsible for picking up the tight end on passing plays...
...till we're driven out with whips," he says. One night, when the Department of Commerce and a couple or three Government agencies had failed to answer MacArthur's latest jeremiads - in which he likes to point out that there is, in fact, an Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Development Act on the books (and when are the feds going to do more than press release it, hmm?) - he tapped out a letter to Amy Carter. Since the adults were being so obtuse, why didn't Amy and her chums - the consciences of the future - stage an alternative...
Equally adept at agronomy and foiling the police, Oregon's pot farmers turned home-grown weed into a profitable racket by developing their unique sinsemillas hybrid. The robust, waste-free strain attracts buyers willing to pay $1,600 a pound, the yield from just one well-cultivated plant. Studies show that sinsemillas weed contains five times more tetrahydrocannabinol (pot's narcotic ingredient) than the common Mexican variety. Even federal drug experts are impressed. "A good deal of expertise goes into producing that kind of plant," notes Dr. Carlton Turner, director of marijuana research for the National Institute of Drug Abuse...