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In class, we briefly discussed the possibilty of genetically engineering an animal to create a dinosaur. I was extremely surprised to find that Jack Horner was doing just that. He could not find real dinosaur DNA from fossils (although he found blood-vessels and soft tissue), so he decided to recreate a dinosaur in a different way - by tampering with a chicken's genome. Horner is trying to reactivate ancestral traits (tail, teeth, hands) to makes a "checkenosaurus." =====

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Bayer demonstrates how plastics and other packaging products are very harmful to our environment. They don't decompose and they can sit in landfills, oceans, or many other places for thousands of years. Bayer proposes an ingenious new product, instead of plastics, that is mushroom based. The mycellium in the fungus is just as powerful as plastic and can be composted. Bayer's idea is a great way to decrease our environmental impact and live sustainably! =====

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