NationStates Jolt Archive

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NEW YORK - An international team of scientists has deciphered the genetic code of rice, an advance that should speed improvements in a crop that feeds more than half the world's population.

It's the first crop plant to have its genome sequenced, which means scientists identified virtually all the 389 million chemical building blocks of its DNA. Certain sequences of these building blocks form genes, like letters spelling words.


That really was the headline (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050810/ap_on_sc/rice_genes) , well not the Cheney part.

If you ask me, it's waste of time cracking up the DNA-code of rice. They already cracked the DNA-code of humans years ago. Why don't they just develop a new human race that won't eat so much? We already produce more food than we need.

Heck, they named dung beetles after Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld. I'm not surprised (or displeased) :D

If you ask me, it's waste of time cracking up the DNA-code of rice. They already cracked the DNA-code of humans years ago. Why don't they just develop a new human race that won't eat so much? We already produce more food than we need. Uh, no. They just mapped the code. They still have no idea what a huge majority of those genes do.

That was a cheesy joke!

That was a cheesy joke!
I would have called it "corny".