Top 5 Bizarre Genetically Modified Organisms
Jun 20th, 2008 by admin
Genetic modification of plants and animals has caused a lot of debate in recent years as the technology becomes much more accessible to scientists. Despite the potential dangers of some modifications, science has continued to test and produce some striking new organisms. This is a list of the top 5 most bizarre.
1- Lemurat
With the growing wealth of China, many rich Chinese women are seeking alternative and exotic pets to show off their money. This has lead to a number of Chinese medical and scientific research companies to compete for this new income source by producing cross breed animals. The most successful (financially) so far has been the Lemur Cat. It is (as the name suggests) a cross between a lemur and a cat. It retains the soft fur of the cat and the coloring, but has the striped tail and yellow eyes commonly found on a lemur. It is more ferocious than the average cat but it is generally no more dangerous than a Chihuahua dog. The scientific name for this new breed is Prolos Fira.
2-Dolion
This is probably the most remarkable example of how far science is able to go with modern DNA and cross fertilization techniques; the dolion is a cross between a lion and a dog. In order to produce this incredible rare animal (only 3 dolions exist in laboratories - the photo above is of Rex, the first ever produced), individual strands of DNA from each creature must be combined and re-inserted in to a host egg. This is similar to the liger (lion/tiger crossbreed) with the exception that the liger is able to be produced without prior manipulation of the DNA of either breed of animal.
3- Glofish
The GloFish was the first genetically modified animal to become available as a pet. It is a natural Zebrafish which has had genetic information from bioluminescent jellyfish added to its DNA. It was originally produced to provide a warning system for pollution but with the addition of further colors its viability for the pet market became clear. It was introduced to the US market in December 2003 by Yorktown Technologies of Austin, Texas.
4- Graisin
The graisin [giant raisin] is a variety of raisin which has been modified to grow to enormous proportions. The graisin was produced by the National Institute of Genetics in Japan due to the Japanese love of large fruit and the recent popularity of western foods such as raisins. The texture and taste is identical to that of its genetically normal parent and it is served raw or thinly sliced in a stir fry.
5- Fern Spider
The fern spider is unique on this list as it is the only combined plant and animal. At the time of writing this is the only animal that has successfully been crossed with a plant. The spider is a cross between a common Italian Wolf spider (Lycosa tarantula) and the ponga fern (Cyathea dealbata). The purpose of this bizarre crossbreed was to study the survival rates of spiders with built in camouflage versus those without in a series of studies on Natural Selection at Massey University in New Zealand. The results of the study have not been published yet.
Source: The List Universe
sometimes you feel that even humans are genetically modified aliens
Fake.
Ah, the wonders of internet, where everone can present false information as truths.
Lol…what a load of crap!
The only real one is the glo-fish.
Anyone else notice that the scientific name for the Lemurat (Prolos Fira) is an anagram of APRIL FOOLS?!
All fake. Duh.
OMG fake cept for the dainos.
Somewhere a pig-man weeps over your disbelief and becomes even more hopeless of depressed.
Manbearpig! I knew it was real!
Huh-wail, ah steel hain’t seen nuthin’ like the cross breedin’ they gots down at the K mart.
Cool~! When will they make genetically modified fish and woman - Mermaid?! That will definitely turn me on when I see sexy mermaid! I can swim with her in the ocean. Remember the movie Walt Disney movie “Splash”!
What a load of crappolla! The real monsters are wearing three thousand-dollar Armani suits and living in gated compounds where armed guards protect them 24/7 from their human victims.
They forgot one. Fat people or pig people! in the 70s mostly everyone was thin now with all the toxic artifical fake food it has Genetically Modified people and now they are turing into pig people!
God is not amused! Do not mess with Mother Nature!
“All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.” —1st Corinthians 15:39
Just think mermaid’s, minotaur’s, cyclops and all the other creatures
mentioned since antiquity.
Genetic manipulation, radiation contamination and the tree of life.
F**k the NWO.
astro
These photos may be fake but man has been experimenting animal/human hybrids since the 1920s and carried over by Hitlers mad scientists and we all know what became of Hitler’s mad scientists, Operation Paper Clip. I have no doubt that these clones and many other do exist. Research eugenics, Darwinism, New World Order, HG Wells, Margaret Sanger etc. Or just go back to sleep because the real world is a very scary place.
there is another genetically modified member doctors and science dont want to talk about .the morgellons parasite.not a bug ,but more machine.self replicating ,able to enter the body or whatever it wants without the immune system detecting it right away.it makes tube like structures which work there way out painfully,leaving scars,it is under a microscope bizzarre.with something like a lion or dragon head with fangs.If Ive sparked your interest great,because it has the potenial to change life as we now know.this is not a hoax please inform yourselves on this.everyone can be affected very soon.well all need to know more.
Even though this may be fake, I still think scientists are doing this sort of experimentation “behind closed doors.” I hope the chimeras they create rise up and destroy mankind. Sorta reminds me of the album by Iced Earth: “Framing Armageddon.” The “10,000″ may as well be the chimeras.
believe or don’t believe the government doesn’t care, because it’s not up to us what they do and it never has been. That’s why we have to take our eyes off of man and put them on God cause man is and animal in his mind and always will be. Don;t be suprised what you see walking out of the lab into society soon.
Dear Nesnatae, or post 13: Please get the FUCK OUT of our Garden.
I do not care what some drunk priest in the 15th century or 13th century wrote down and said it was a holy book, ir mroe transelated it to whatever fuck he wanted. If God so didn’t want us to do this kinda shit, he’d pull the lightning hammer at us..
Now, to this crap.
This crap is indeed, BULLSHIT. However, perhaps in the future, we -do- have the technology to cross breeds. according to a lot of scientists, they can proove most mammals and such comes from the same shit, mostly! But the thing is, is to -activate- the genes, as the genes lay dorment within us.
But for now, it’s impossible. Do not listen to this futureistic crap, it has not happened..yet.
The lion dog thing looks like a dog with a mane tacked on,its rot.
But then again I knew this electronics guy who had to go into a secret government lab to fix something and saw a giant 2 headed rabbit.
O dear, I think we should perhaps be trying to genetically engineer people with a sense of humour. Yes folks, these things are fake, but they’re also meant to be funny. I know it’s a horrible world out there, but let’s not lose the ability to laugh at ourselves occasionally and not take life too seriously all the time.
The Greeks did all this and more 1000’s of years ago!!!
This list was stolen from my website listverse.com - it was written as an April fools joke this year. Please remove it from here or at the least credit it back to my site.
Our creators were Geneticists. These creatures may be hoaxes, especially that stupid Liondog thing . U cn bet yr sweet life the scientists are hidden away trying out stuff like that right now.
Thats a pitbull with a coat on.
25 years ago VT located in Blackburg, Va. Cross bread a goat and a cow. I saw it myself. The animal died just a few days after birth. While I can’t prove the above exsists without a doubt we have a number of professionals screwing around with the building blocks of life……..
Google Spider Goat I know for a fact it’s real.
i believe these are faked as well.
this is all a pile of crap
Fake.
Ain’t Photoshop grand? There are several NATURAL perdatory as well as prey animals that incorporate camouflage from bits of plants and their environemnt - no news there.
The Dolion is a poor Chow Chow that has been given a “lion clip” at the request of its owner who has an identity crisis.
The lemurat is very definitely a result of digital photo manipulation.
The Glofish are real.
Raisins aren’t actually grown folks - they are the result of dehydrating grapes - since there are many grapes that grow to large diameters - a large raisin is NOT the result of genetic modification beyond what has already been done to create the large grape - duh.
WE already live in a world of genetically modified organisms - we live with them - all dog and cat breeds are simply genetic modifications of the original African wild cat or wild dog. Ferrets hail from polecats. We eat GMOs - there is no way that traditional or heirloom plants could produce enough to feed the world, so for generations corn, oats, wheat, rice, grasses and all agricultural products are the result of careful genetic manipulation and hybridization. Farmed foods and ranched animals too are all the result of careful breeding which is nothing more than creating a GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM!
Get a grip on reality folks!
look this may or may not be right id just be cautious about what i maid. you dont want to piss off any body up there.
Hmmmm, müssen wir also demnaechst aufpaßen, was wir so verzaehren!
no matter what anyone believes or doesnt believe, the truth of the matter is that with the way the world is any more, we could all use a little bit of “GOD”, or a lot, in our lives, with out him, NOTHING is possible, with him, ALL things are possible. All the bad things that mad are doing is not a matter of GOD letting them, he gave us all a CHOICE, and some men choose evil things, there has to be good as well as evil or we wouldnt have nothing to worry about, my point is, its all about the choices we as humans make in our lives that determine the kind of person we are, or will be, so dont blame it on GOD, blame it on SATAN, hes the one that makes all the evil things that humans do……
omg this freaked me sooooo much. i have a phobia of spiders. luv, anise r
anise rogalewski
I BELIEVE IT
dont u find it “weird” that the results of the study made for the fernspider arent published yet =)
My favourite animal is a dung beetle cos i lovem!!! funnywunnyfluffypoop
I love his picture. It reminds me of my friend who is a leprechaun. She is a fluffyfurryfluffballthing
Dear Kixt, you are foul-mouthed, therefore irrelevant.
What a load of shit. haha You’ve got to be retarded to believe any of this.
omg bryony stop posting these stupid comments with my name in and HA cause now everyone knows that its u who is simran, just me and probs miss sunshine honestly ur such a bannana! and its kinda obvious its u cause u keep posting them in ourt lunch time!
haha that is so stupid! FAKE!! i belived it for a second but then i relized wat a fake it was
yo dis shitz is all fake yo
dude you be bein stupid if u be thankin dat this mf shitz is real ya
hey that is so fn mean to say you must be retarded to belife that!!!
ASSSSSSSSSWHHHHHHOOOOLLLEEEE
Действительно, на самом деле все очень просто
Нехорошее употребление материальных благ очень часто является вернейшим путем к величайшим невзгодам.
That dog sure is funny, but in the end, i think that we’ll end up making an error somewhere playing with our food sources. A small error in a lab could wipe out the entire population, i think laws are not strong enough with GM food. (Anyway, nice pics, loved them heheh!)
omg is thhis stuff liget