BBC Science Fail

That's exactly how genetic modification works. Really, it is. One base at a time.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• BBC
• Science
• DNA
• GFP

[majorvoltage]

Gene...nucleobase...same thing! This guy must have learned biology from Kent Hovind.

[coerce1]

Back to Biology class with you!

[MrPentatonicScale]

its not about science, its about intellectually stimulating graphics

[armanika]

the animation was more correct than the reporter regarding GFP

[f00tstep]

This is what happens when people like Ben Stien teatch biology.

[justamyish]

Dayum. I'm an undereducated American and even I see the flaw in that video. Damn.

[Spetsop]

@roggy12345

It's not the science itself that failed, that was actually pretty impressive.  It's the report on science that failed, specifically the part where the reporter was talking about the 'gene' that was removed from a DNA of one specie and incorporated into the DNA of another, but the animation showed one 'nucleotide' being moved. A gene is a specific pattern of nucleotides, so it's the animation that failed :P

[WestliFerZul]

@Afrikaanus Actually Sickle cell aneamia is caused by a single nucleotide mutation

[rkyeun]

@Afrikaanus

tinyurl to /nylonase for me.

[Afrikaanus]

Ohhh, epic fail. One nucleotide doesn't do anything on it's own.

[theclinger]

That wasn't that bad actually.

[IntrepidStranger]

So, is it A, T, C, or G that gives you glowy feet? I'm fairly sure I have all of em, but no glowing yet...