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The creation of today’s domestic tomato was skilled feat of plant breeding, but one that requires many generations to accomplish. A wild species or race bred into the domestic stock also carries with its baggage of less desirable genes that reduce yield and quality. Breeders must delete these traits through repeated backcrossing, mating the hybrids back to the domestic strains, in a way that preserves only the desirable genes of both domestic and wild forms in the breeding stock. Finally conventional hybridization can be accomplished solely among species and strains similar enough to be bred together, as in the case of multiple parents of ‘Lycopersicon esculentium” Now, however, traditional selective breeding can be shot-circuites. New methods of genetic engineering have made it possible to transfer genes directly, excising them from the chromosomes of one species and placing them into the chromosomes of another species without hybridization of the entire genomes. . . . Page 448

The Extinction of large mammals and flightless birds coincided closely with the arrival of humans in North America, Madagascar, and New Zealand, and less decisively earlier in Australia. In Africa, where humans and animals evolved together for million of years, the damage was less severe.

When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear. ....................... ............................. Excerpt "When Great Tree Falls" ~ Maya Angelou

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Image from "Nobel Prize" ~ Face Book www.facebook.com/nobelprize/photos/10158615055919103 Origin of Species -- on Line darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pdf/1861_OriginNY_F382.pdf Gutenberg Link: www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2009/pg2009-images.html

Wilson received National Medal of Science from President Carter at a White House ceremony, November 22, 1977 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods - ~Robert Frost