There were simple aims to genetic modification and enhancement but there always seemed to be a directly proportional relationship between the intended benefits and undesirable side-effects.
Genetic bending was largely illegal and thus the greatest advances were made by countries external to the World Union (WU), which only placed the limit of ‘doing something useful’ on scientific investigation.
So in an effort to do something productive for these second class countries, many ingenious traits were accentuated and amplified. Unfortunately,due to the complexity of natural interaction, the side-effects were unpredictable: bizarre enlargement or foreshortening of limbs, conjoined creatures and other distinct features.
The most curious results of genetic experimentation were on non-human fauna and flora, which we shall look at in the garden.
Plate 11: When cataclysmic pollution levels swamped the planet and its populace with health problems, scientists desperately tried to create a human with a much higher chemical and radiation tolerance. But what is accelerated in the tomato becomes preposterous in the human.
While this direction became redundant on Earth after SIB* control was implemented, this breed has done well on planets like Mars where a thinner atmosphere lets in more cosmic radiation.
* Superior Intelligence Being
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