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But I thought bananas were eggs :( (thelemmy.club)
submitted 9 months ago by [M] to c/ididnthaveeggs@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Piling rocks in the shape of bridges, then copying the designs of the bridges that survived the best with minor iterations. Some iterations made worse bridges; these weren't copied, but the rest survived and led to better bridges.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The romans didnt randomly piled rocks and built bridges. They put in a lot of engineer forthought before even beginning construction. Certainly some were primed to fail because of miscalculations and misunderstandings (something that plagues even modern engineering).

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I think we're getting carried away with analogies, the point is: any technique that deliberately modifies the genome of an organism to achieve a desired result is genetic engineering, and such an organism is a GMO

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