I think it would be cool if horses where pink! Or at least glow in the dark like some plants! Do you think that would be possible with genetic engineering?
2006-08-19 09:48:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Yes, people have isolated a gene for green fluorescent protein of jelly fish and played around with it to create various color variants. You could, for example, express the red fluorescent protein weakly in cells producing hair pigment and perhaps that would result in a pink horse. Should we do this? It's not an easy question. I'd rather have these high tech manipulations saved for either finding out basic biology or curing dire problems.
2006-08-19 10:05:35 · answer #1 · answered by Lorelei 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They actually made glow in the dark rabbits and pigs:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Health/story?id=1498324
However, these animals would probably never survive if released into the wild again. They would most likely be abandoned by other animals of their kind and be at a distinct disadvantage in hiding from predators. Supposedly they are being be used in stem cell research and in the study of several human diseases, but I have yet to see the correlation.
2006-08-19 10:00:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes it will be hard but yo just give each cell some aribanose and then some PGlo it has benn done where some scientestis took a rabbit and turned it pink. But you could only see the horse in ultraviolet lighting.
2006-08-19 10:16:44 · answer #3 · answered by boondocks1992 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
more than likely
2006-08-19 09:57:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Possible but stupid.
2006-08-19 10:00:01 · answer #5 · answered by Cowboy Jacob 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋