Fern Spider - Wolf Spider Cross Plant
By aulius111
@aulius111 (330)
Australia
October 31, 2009 11:05am CST
Today I read an article about 10 bizarre genetic combinations and one of them was the fern spider. Apparently an Italian Wolf Spider has been crossed with a plant, yes a plant, to study the spiders survival rates with camouflage. Currently, it is the only animal to be crossed with a plant.
What are your thoughts on this Fern Spider? Do you think scientists should be doing this kind of thing?
1 response
@jb78000 (15139)
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31 Oct 09
i've heard of all sorts of genes being added to animals before. what happened here? where is this article and do you have a link? very interesting discussion btw and on the whole i do not think scientists should be doing this - it can go too far, it can be cruel and it can go wrong.
@aulius111 (330)
• Australia
1 Nov 09
It's number two on: http://listverse.com/2008/04/01/top-10-bizarre-genetically-modified-organisms/ You may be interested in the other ones too.
