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But I thought bananas were eggs :( (thelemmy.club)
submitted 10 months ago by [M] to c/ididnthaveeggs@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 2 points 10 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 10 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 10 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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