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...Some E.U. member states and anti-GM campaigners remain unconvinced. Austria said it would outlaw growing the potato, and Italian Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia said he planned to "defend and safeguard traditional agriculture and citizens' health." The environmental group Greenpeace said the GM potato contains a gene that confers resistance to certain antibiotics. "It could raise bacterial resistance to life-saving medicines, including drugs used for the treatment of tuberculosis," says Greenpeace E.U. agriculture policy director Marco Contiero. "This is an unacceptable risk to human and animal health as well as to the environment." (See the top 10 green stories...
...discovered singing on the empty stage of the local opera house. Ripening into a petite, shapely teen with raven hair framing a Kabuki-pale face, she made her film debut as Mickey Rooney date bait in Andy Hardy's Private Secretary and was a star in Thousands Cheer, with Gene Kelly, and Anchors Aweigh, with Kelly and Frank Sinatra. She had the lead in MGM's 1951 remake of Show Boat and sealed her stardom with the role of Lilli the show-biz shrew, battling Howard Keel as her husband, in the film version of Cole Porter's Kiss...
...team found that the link between genotype and phenotype—as it relates to beak shape—is much simpler than previously thought, with beak length, depth, and width each controlled by a single gene...
...team found that finches within the genus Geospiza all have beaks differentiated only by scaling transformations, with only a single gene controlling each of the three dimensions. But for Galápagos finches outside of Geospiza, higher order mathematical transformations were necessary to account for the physical differences in the beaks, Campàs-Rigau said...
These SCNAs include amplifications, in which more than one copy of a gene is present, and deletions, in which the copy is not present...