[devwastaken]

“im youtube educated so its okay that for profit corps play around with genetics they know nothing about”

burden is on you to demonstrate that we somehow have anywhere close to a good theory of how genetics work. we dont, it doesnt exist, because we dont know. your friends paychecks dont care much for science.

[Llamamoe]

Genes code for production of protein. Protein have a specific, usually very narrow function. There's a lot of cases where a gene you want to add doesn't work right because of the difference between the organism it comes from and the one you're transplanting it to, but there isn't much of a way for it to have unpredictable results.

E.g. if you add a gene coding for an enzyme that turns molecule A into molecule B, most of the time there simply isn't a way for it to do anything, and the organism will usually adjust production of molecule A to compensate, so that there's barely even the tiniest difference other than it now producing molecule B.