Environmental Science: Pigs with Spinach genes

Ok... Candlelight, a little wine and a lot of Barry White.....AND YOU STILL WOULD GET THIS! Japanese Scientist in a quest to make a leaner pig, have succeed in introducing a spinach gene into a pig!

Read about it here.

Scientists cross pigs with spinach

Spinach gene makes pigs healthier to eat

Mutations and Four Leaf Clovers

It turns out 1 clover in 10,000 is a Four-Leaf Clover. This is sometimes called a somatic mutation, a mutation that cannot be passed on to it's descendants. Whether this mutations is from radiation or environment is still debated today.


Other Mutations of Notes

Extra Nipples
Extra Fingers
Sickle Cell
Cystic Fibrosis
Tay-Sachs