Don Wrote:
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>From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
>Behalf Of Don Perrett
>Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:31 PM
>
>Good point, but doesn't the OT say not to create hybrid plants? If so, then
>what makes us think that hybrid/genetic engineered anything would be
>acceptable to God.?
If hybrids are not acceptable to God, why did God set up a system where
natural polyploids occur?
This is from an old speciation FAQ by Boxhorn:
"5.1.3 Trapopogonan
Owenby (1950) demonstrated that two species in this genus were
produced by polyploidization from hybrids. She showed that
Trapopogonan miscellus found in a colony in Moscow, Idaho was
produced by hybridization of T. dubius and T. pratensis. She also
showed that T. mirus found in a colony near Pullman, Washington was
produced by hybridization of T. dubius and T. porrifolius."
This is something I ran across:
"Polyphyly is possibly less heterodox than it may seem at first
sight, in so far as polytopy is advocated in cases of speciation by
polyploidy or hybridization. Two allotetraploid ferns (Asplenium
bradleyi and A. pinnatifidum) are polymorphic at the same loci as
their diploid parents: this indicates that each of them has
originated more than once. The multiple origin of several polyploid
plants has also been confirmed by molecular evidence. . . . these
studies, mostly based on cpDNA evidence, suggest that multiple
origins of polyploids are perhaps the rule rather than the
exception."~Alessandro Minelli, Biological Systematics, (London:
Chapman & Hall, 1993), p. 80-81
>Don P
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