Glowing fish, not reviews.The nation's first genetically engineered genetically engineered adjective Recombinant, see there pet has gone on sale: a tiny zebra fish with a gene from a sea coral that makes it red in normal light and causes it to glow under ultraviolet light Ultraviolet light A portion of the light spectrum not visible to the eye. Two bands of the UV spectrum, UVA and UVB, are used to treat psoriasis and other skin diseases. . Some stores report good sales of the GloFish. Others say the response has been lukewarm, in part because the fish, which sell for $5 to $10 (versus as little as 33 cents for ordinary zebra fish), are unremarkable in natural light. Some critics say science should leave animals alone. "I'm not that big on mutated and man-made fish," says Craig Beauchamp of the Fish Store and More in Atlanta. The GloFish is a reminder that genetic engineering faces hurdles other than debates over ethics. The first genetically modified genetically modified Adjective (of an organism) having DNA which has been altered for the purpose of improvement or correction of defects genetically modified genetic adj [food etc] → food (the Flavr Savr The Flavr Savr tomato was the first commercially grown genetically engineered food to be granted a license for human consumption. It was produced by the Californian company Calgene, and submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1992. tomato) flopped in the 1990s. Some said the tomatoes. which were equipped with a gene to retard rotting, tasted no better than the competition. |
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