Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theoretical level recombinant DNA experimentation is highly sophisticated. Procedures developed in the last five years use special enzymes to slice up and reassemble pieces of genes in the form of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. By mixing DNA from viruses, bacteria, and animals, molecular biologists can create novel hybrid organisms. Fear about the creation and accidental release of dangerous new forms of viruses and bacteria has been one focus of the recombinant DNA debate...
...reproduce Mary Hartman's formula, she has left out its essential ingredient-compassion. Mary Hartman presented its admittedly loony characters with such affection that audiences cared about them and even identified with their failings. Soap contemptuously presents its people as either stupid or conniving or cruel or some hybrid thereof. With so many unpleasant cartoon figures on the screen, Soap's potentially affecting sexual shenanigans devolve into mean-spirited locker-room jokes. It is not Soap's desire to lather on the sex that lands the series in hot water but its insistence on isolating sex from...
...senior White House energy expert puts it: "The new department is a curious kind of hybrid." Among other things, it inherits the entire Federal Energy Administration, the Federal Power Commission, the Energy Research and Development Administration and some 50 functions now performed by other agencies throughout the federal bureaucracy. It has a management responsibility, including the huge Bonneville dam project, a weapons research-and-development complex stemming from the old Atomic Energy Commission, and a huge research-and-development program that explores energy sources from wind to thermonuclear fusion. The new department will also create some new sections, notably...
Mangelsdorf, the other retired faculty member receiving an honorary degree today, is best known for his studies on hybrid corn seeds, which have opened up new areas of basic and applied research on this major food crop...
...played a major role in helping develop hybrid seed corn that does not require the costly process of removing corn tassels by hand, and in developing winter wheat with rustresistant stems...