UKNM: Re: still off-topic I'm afraid / genetics

[Lois Grayson]

Oh please don't get me started or before you know it I'll be posting stuff

about alleles, phenotypes  and short tandem repeat polymorphisms (or

stirps - techno geeks eat your heart out; the devil saves the best

(acronyms) for his own). I started to refute Paul's slight but remembered

half way through a description of chromosomal crossover during meiosis that

a) I have work to do and b) this is supposed to be about marketing


*sigh*


Lois

----- Original Message -----

From: Paul Gill <

paulacheulian [dot] com

>

To: <

uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

>; <

loisgdialstart [dot] net

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Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 11:02 AM

Subject: still off-topic I'm afraid / genetics



> At 02:32 PM 9/11/00 +0100, you wrote:

> >Mendel didn't fuck about with nature, he observed and interpreted NATURAL

> >phenomena and used his interpretation as a platform for increased

scientific

> >understanding (and the local farmers an understanding of how to grow

normal

> >peas better). Careful cross pollination didn't fuck up the food chains

> >around Heinzendorf.

>

> Apparently careful cross pollination didn't happen much at all as it is

> alleged (in relatively recent piece - about four years ago) that Mendel,

> ahem, cooked his books to make them agree with his own ideas about

> inheritance of characteristics.

>

> Paul.



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