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Cuban cows

Cuban cows
by Devine, James
21 May 2002 17:54 UTC

from SLATE's summary of today's news from major US papers: >An article in
the [Wall Street JOURNAL] says that Fidel Castro is pushing his scientists
to clone milking-cows, with the goal being to replicate a famously
productive, and now deceased, Cuban bovine beast. Castro turned to that plan
after his previous scheme to provide endless milk proved a touch
unrealistic. The idea, according to the paper, was "to provide families with
miniature milk-cows that they could keep in their apartments. The pint-sized
beasts would graze on grass grown in drawers under fluorescent lights."<

I'm sorry, but it sounds as if Fidel -- or one of his advisors -- has
partaken of some grass grown in drawers under fluorescent lights. The intent
is good, but Lysenko's ghost is hovering near-by.

^^^^^^^^

CB: How does the alleged cloning plan violate the dogma of no inheritance of acquired characteristics ?
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