Glow in the dark animals – Seriously, glow-in-the-dark pigs, cats and now dogs.
It occurred to me tonight.
We live in an age where if you type in “glow in the dark animal” in google images, you actually find a myriad of legitimate images pertaining to the search. I never imagined a glow in the dark animal just for the sake of imagining one let alone one actually being made.
These thoughts and research arose while I was surfing through the news online, dodging all the stories about the Swin Flu, when I stumbled on this:
I am not sure how many of you may remember the glow in the dark pig?
Can you imagine my surprise when I spot this new addition?
And then imagine my surprise when I start googling glow in the dark animals.
glow in the dark mouse
Our world is changing… and my next pet may just glow in the dark.. and out of curiosity sake.
Why don’t plastic light switches glow in the dark?
@Anna
thanks Anna
it is all explained here
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/glowing-animal-pictures/#rhesus-monkey-glowing-animals_11831_600x450.jpg
@Jenna
Don’t know if anyone will read this but the really really basic gist of it is that they insert jellyfish DNA into the genome of *insert animal here* which will then cause it to produce the protein that makes them glow. It was originally developed to track how certain proteins moved through the body of the subject (attaching it to the DNA that codes for X protein will make it so that the glow gene will be attached to it, then the researchers can track it really easily.)
well im not all the sure how this is possible, but i am learning about it in my bio class…im really confused about it so if you could please explain it to me that’d be great… please and thankyou
Hello Jenna,
I know nothing about how or why they make animals glow. Sorry.