Howling WereWolf wrote:

> >Yes and I'll see how we could get information on animal genetic

> >sequences (ours included of course ;) and compare them to isolate the

> >required genes... There must be an online resource somewhere... ;]

> 

> Looking for it. ;]



Me too. I'm currently trying using a good newsgroup. When I get the

data, I will first make a program (yeah, with automatic preformance

optimization), that will translate all the data to proteins and evaluate

the effects of minor mutations.



> And here is some useful info:

> 

> The mendelian concept of gene suffered a simmilar change to that happened to

> the 'central dogma'. The formen conception of 'gene' was an entity located

> in a perpanent place inside the crhomosome (the 'locus') whose location is

> perpanent excepting when mutations are involved.

> 

> But certain mutations are caused by certain 'jumping genes', known as

> transposons, which are able to change their location inside the chromosome,

> so the idea of a permanent genome dissapeared. 

> 

> The inserted jumping genes can be silenced or can be overactivated,

> generating a mutation. Mutations can be produced by vertical transmission

> from parents to their offspring, but also can be horizontally transmitted

> between different species by, for example, a tick (yeah, ticks!), so that

> these jumping genes can be a fundamental mechanism for evolution, together

> with viruses.

> 

> Hope this helps.



It does! ;P



I'd be most interested in how can these jumping genes be packed onto a

virus and transported to another cell. 

The idea would be that a virus, that otherwise seldomly reproduces (thus

not causing much damage to the organism), would copy RNA strands (or

strands of active DNA) and include them in the new virus and set

additioal code on the virus to insert it's genetic info after a similar

sequence as before this one (making sure the info is not missplaced).



How to manage that is easily explainable by the organism's own

anti-virus equipment, which can indentify the genetic makeup of the

virus and create a killer cell that is capable of pinpointing all the

cells that include the virus' genetic information and, well, killing

them, since they're killer cells.



If we took that method, our viruses could indentify the genetic info

from the infected cells and, instead of creating killer cells, create

killer viruses, that would seek out the same genetic fingerprint and

infect the cells indentified to be currently executing it. This way,

body cells of a single organism wouldn't be affected, because they all

contained the same genetic info, but if the virus was recieved from

another lifeform, for example a wolf, the genetic info would be

diffirent and the victim cells would be fitted with wolf cell

characteristics instead.



The virus cover-up could be managed by claiming it can be used to

prevent the immune system from destroying transplanted internal organs,

which is true.



If something went wrong, in the worst case, the virus would

self-destruct (destroy all of it's own kind).



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> 

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