Thursday, April 11, 2013

Gene splicing is more easy than some people would think. It can be done on any bacteria, cells, and DNA though it's easiest to mess with bacteria. To make a strand of bacteria do such a complex thing as bioluminescently glow in ultraviolet light is take the bacteria and some DNA of a jellyfish, break down the cell walls and nucleus membrane with various alcoholic chemicals, apply the jellyfish DNA and a binding agent which forces the gene of bioluminescence to become dominant, and wait for weeks and you will have spliced genes! Here's some pictures of what pure bacteria look like:
And here's a picture of what unrecognizably altered bacteria look like: