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But I thought bananas were eggs :( (lemmy.nz)

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[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

Well, when you find evidence of the the romans building aquaducts by throwing mud randomly. You let me know.

[-] scholar@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Piling rocks in the shape of bridges, then copying the designs of the bridges that survived the best with minor iterations. Some iterations made worse bridges; these weren't copied, but the rest survived and led to better bridges.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

The romans didnt randomly piled rocks and built bridges. They put in a lot of engineer forthought before even beginning construction. Certainly some were primed to fail because of miscalculations and misunderstandings (something that plagues even modern engineering).

[-] scholar@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I think we're getting carried away with analogies, the point is: any technique that deliberately modifies the genome of an organism to achieve a desired result is genetic engineering, and such an organism is a GMO

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