Sunday, March 6, 2011

Jellyfish

So in class we happen to come across this picture and this picture really made me laugh on the inside. The picture itself showed in one , two pigs were glowing in the dark and in the next two they had a canola plant and then some type of mouse or rat. How in the world did they get these animals to glow. Scientist one day decided that they were going to retrieve the bacteria that is in jelly fish that cause them to glow. This bacteria is called fluorescent protein. They now inject into theses three different types of living organisms and now they glow in the dark. Could it be that this is the same things in things like glow sticks? I find myself wondering these things because they are very interesting in the thought process. Is it possible that a scientist could inject this same proteing into a human being and they would be able to glow? I think that we should see, and some how I plan on getting the word out there. I would even be the one that they can use to experiment on.

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