(February 16, 2016 at 1:11 am)Excited Penguin Wrote:(February 16, 2016 at 1:03 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences. Phenotypical expressions are often sourced in multiple loci on the genome which all interact in order to produce a particular phenotype ... and furthermore, one locus often has multiple functions. That means that many genetic manipulations would likely have to account for an entire web of interactions.
And that's not counting the effects of hox genes and the like.
Maybe put that in intelligible English, if you know what I mean.
Maybe study up on evolution if you're going to pontificate about it, if you know what I mean. Start with Carl Zimmer's Evolution, where all these concepts are explained.