Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!amdahl!JUTS!kpc00 From: kpc00@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (kpc) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: bioluminescence Message-ID: Date: 5 Aug 90 05:04:29 GMT References: <1990Aug3.215755.13431@oresoft.com> Sender: kpc00@ccc.amdahl.com Followup-To: sci.bio Distribution: usa Organization: my-organization Lines: 11 In-reply-to: richard@oresoft.com's message of 3 Aug 90 21:57:55 GMT In article <1990Aug3.215755.13431@oresoft.com> richard@oresoft.com (Richard Johnson) writes: I remember a year or so ago there was an announcement about bioluminous tobacco made from spicing in the genes of fireflies. Are the genes for living things this similar? I realize that the question invites a variety of answers since it's got no definition for "similar". Could we make a glow-mouse? -- Neither representing any company nor, necessarily, myself.