Re: British scientists make human-cow embryos

On 2008-04-03, rick++ <rick303@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Unlikely to succeed because of suibtle differences in mitochrondia
> DNA.
> Mitrochondria contain DNA for 10% of the proteins they use and
> get the 90% of their proteins from the general cell.  (Lances book
> on the subject offers some explanations.)
> Mitrochondia are extremely im****tant for life and you wouldnt
> want them dying off.

Which makes for a great amount of pressure for decreasing mutation rates
in those proteins.  So it's not as clearly crazy as one might think
based on this objection.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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