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So I have bben so busy I forgot to start reading my book. I sat down and read 275 pages in one night. It is very interesting even though most of it could never happen at this point in time anyway. I wrote a lot about this in my final paper, but I guess I can talk about it again. Transgenesis is possible, and it happens all the time, but not even close to what they explain in the book. In the book there is an orangutan that swears in different languages, a parrot that does math, and a half man half chimpanzee. The extent of transgenesis at this point is implanting a few genes form one species into an embryo of another species for experimentation puropses. Gene patenting in the book was a little extreme even though they do occur. People can patent genes to prevent people from stealing the credit for any discoveries from them. In the book there are companies litterally feuding over patenting genes. I'm sure this happens to some extent, but not people committing suicide so they wouldn't get caught stealing research from another companies patented gene. The ethical paroblems in this book are enormous. People creating all kinds of unneeded animals just to see if they can. There needs to be reason you do anything in science, and I couldn't find any for any of the experiments that were done in this novel
Katie Zimmer lol :)