About the researches that have been made how much can we manipulate the genetic code to construct things? such as a monkey of 3 arms, or genetic code mixing.. how much of this is posible.

 

Can the genetic code of diferent kingdoms of life be mixed?

The answer to the part about mixing kingdoms is yes. We have been splicing different pieces of DNA into bacteria for years. For instance, one of the best methods of producing human insulin is to harvest genetically altered bacteria.

This research didn't involve genetic engineering but its pretty cool anyway:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/205477.stm

Nice article, but yet.. is it posible to create "new" species (mutated) by mixing genetic code.

I cant wait until the day when genetic engineering (more than just splicing pieces and all) is possible. I'll be mostly a horticulturist. A fierce horticulturist. I will make plants that look beautiful, but could kick your butt. I'll also make animals that can photosynthesize. (i don't know if that is possible, but i think it would be with lower maitenence organisms, or if it was done while an animal sleeps, and stores like a battery). Ohh i'd also create a Shiva woman (the hindu goddess with four arms). Maybe that would be unethical though . . . .

Yes. Here is an article with several new species created with genetic engineering.

http://members.tripod.com/c_rader0/gemod.htm

Phoey. All that's very cool, but it aint' no Shiva. Actually that sight did look like it had lots of info. I'll have to read more later.

All right, we made a new species of bacteria,crops and so forth.

But these organisms in fact do not have a very complicated genom.

Take the genom of a monkey or a rat, it'll take a while until we are done with the whole analysis of the genetic material of monkeys.

By the way: Why should men create new(absolute useless) species? I have serious concerns about this, ethically!

None of these qualify as new species. They are just mutant strains.

I cant wait until the day when genetic engineering (more than just splicing pieces and all) is possible. I'll be mostly a horticulturist. A fierce horticulturist. I will make plants that look beautiful, but could kick your butt. I'll also make animals that can photosynthesize. (i don't know if that is possible, but i think it would be with lower maitenence organisms, or if it was done while an animal sleeps, and stores like a battery). Ohh i'd also create a Shiva woman (the hindu goddess with four arms). Maybe that would be unethical though . . . .

 

ever read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley or Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I wouldnt be so keen on genetic engineering if I was you.

 

edit: you can call them fiction if you want, but they nevertheless represent frightening dystopias

Brave New World painted a picture of a dystopic society that had been created by human nature. Genetic engineering was just a tool they happened to use.

I know that, but there is an inherent greed within us. Once genetic engineering becomes privatized and business-like, i some how doubt i can be optimistic in the human race

That's not really a quality of genetic engineering, is it?