(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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