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"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. You look at the world around you, and take it apart into its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Tectogenetic | ||
| Deliberate manipulation of genes to produce unique species. |
Probably the earliest (and clearest) statement of this idea in science fiction (and possibly elsewhere).
| You take living chromosomes, break them down into their separate genes and preserve the genes alive in pure culture [...] Then you rebuild the chromosomes into a new pattern and implant them in denucleated germ cells. From then on it's a simple matter of gestation -- or seed formation if you're working with plants -- in vitro. |
| Technovelgy from Crisis in Utopia,
by Norman L. Knight. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1940 Additional resources -
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Compare to genetic engineering from Jack Williamson's Dragon's Island.
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