The Genome of Your Thanksgiving Supper

An anonymous reader writes "Here's a fact you can distract your family with over the Thanksgiving table: many of the major ingredients in Thanksgiving foods have had their genomes sequenced. Biomedical researchers are interested in the turkey genome due to the animal's susceptibility to cancer; botanists are studying the genome of the Chinese chestnut to search for the root of its resistance to chestnut blight; and corn — well, corn's genome is just cool."

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[Anonymous Coward]

"Biomedical researchers are interested in the turkey genome due to the animal's susceptibility to caner".

Would the Slashdot editors please sober UP ?

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K. Trout

Re:Turkey and caner????

[SheeEttin]

So, what part of the turkey gets "A slender, strong but often flexible stem, as of certain bamboos, reeds, or rattans"?

The rears of the disobedient ones.
Or the ones into S&M, I guess...

Line item food order

[earlymon]

Pass the GC-AT-AT-GC...?

No thanks, I'll have the turkey!

(Well how about the cranberries? They don't have much AT...)

So - do we sing the genome to the tune of Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam?

Re:pray for a cure for caner!

[interkin3tic]

2. wtf is caner? i hope those poor turkeys are alright!

Caner is cancer for domesticated turkeys. Domesticated turkeys, being unearthly stupid, don't know how to spell "cancer" properly.

Sadly, they're not alright, their goose is cooked so to speak. And by goose, I mean themselves.

Turkey Cancer

[jameskojiro]

Sweet delicious turkey basted in it's own cancerous giblets sauce.

Mmmmm Mmmmm Gobble-licious.

Re:No, corn is not cool

[MillionthMonkey]

Do your grandparents spray anhydrous ammonia all over their little garden? That stuff they grow is something called "Sweet Delicious Corn", which can probably be eaten on the cob and isn't real, honest, Monsanto corn.