Talk:General Genetics/Genetic Principles

Can we know how genes govern a living organism, by principle?
Can we determine systematically how genes build, and govern a living organism precisly, by principle? In other words, is it possible to determine what gene or genes need to be modified, inorder the change ONE and only one feature of the organizum? It may not be possible to change only one feature. We can change a feature, but it may change some other features at the same time.

By manipulate my genes, can I make only my right ear bigger, without changing anything else? I mean by principle. I know we can not do that now, but is it possible at all?

We were built from the bottom up, gradually, from a single cell. So the top down approach may not be possible. Let say we want to design a new animal from scratch. I don't think the top down approach will work easily, may not be possible at all. There is no separate "ear" gene, for say.

So creating a new organizum needs to start from an existing one with try and error, or we could simulate evolution in a computer, starting with a single cell, manipulate only the environment, and perform some other "miracles" for them to help them to evolve what we want.... This is science fiction now, but the end product of the simulation would be the set of genes that we need to create the new organizum. ... Ervinn (talk) 04:26, 17 December 2007 (UTC)