(urth) Rajan and Food
Jerry Friedman
jerry_friedman at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 28 20:07:07 PDT 2009
--- On Tue, 4/28/09, Brian Lovely <brian at studiobl.com> wrote:
...
> Crossbreeding. The corn that Horn seeks on the Whorl. The
> underwater
> greenhouses, the strange doubling of limbs that many
> creatures on Blue
> exhibit. I read somewhere in the list a theory about
> polyploidy something
> or other--some biology that I don't know anything
> about--but the upshot was
> that you can cross corn in such a way that the genetic
> pattern is
> doubled...something like that. More to the point, like
> beasts with eight legs.
...
I hope you read my response, pointing out that polyploid
animals don't have double the usual number of limbs.
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0203/382.txt.shtml
Jerry Friedman
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