LKL wrote:
Confirmed, as in experiment? No, of course not. But it's basic sense: once your growth plates close up, for example, your bones are done growing - your bones aren't going to change into dog bones just because some of their DNA is switched.
As I mentioned, healing and other ongoing things (like ongoing regeneration of tissues) would occur as if you were the organism whose DNA had replaced the original - but you would at most end up like some sort of mutant combination of the two (and not in the good sense of 'mutant').
Wrt. wheat: a lot of that modification is natural - IIrc wheat is a natural hybrid between two different species, that humans found and took advantage of. Plant genetics is, from the perspective of someone who focused more on the zoological side of things, really freaking bizarre. Even normal angiosperm seeds have multiple polyploidies in several different combinations, and a lot of plants have free-living monoploid stages. Complete genome duplications, and complete genome hybridizations (as with wheat) are far from rare.
My point is that cells die. And if there's no information about replacing it anywhere (because that bit in the DNA has been modified), you'll have something else happening. Or am I completely off here?
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