#there are dna databases for every crop and model organism on the planet if you look | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

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obscure underdesigned online scientific DNA databases chocked full long strings of genetic code printed out at length on the page carefully filed under each trait/gene/line giving me strange and complicated thoughts and feelings about the nature of life and biology like im seeing something i shouldnt but could build my own drought-resistant soybeans from scratch if i just reacted things in the right order in a test tube but also the horror and mystification that some of these genes are copyrighted by x company in x year and are documented on the site like a secret history of strange quiet things but the history spans public academic discoveries as well and the comfort that none of any of this truly belongs to us and never will my beloved

#this was inspired by soybase.org but it’s not the only one out there #there are dna databases for every crop and model organism on the planet if you look #the difference is that I came upon it because I found a bunch of samples of different soybean genetic lines at work #labeled by company and year back to the 1960s #and I was trying to find like. if they were even still around in current soybean lines lmao

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