Scientists change one species to another (cue evil laugh)

Scientists, oh those wacky scientists, have now transformed one species into another. Craig Venter and his team took the genome of one bacteria and transplanted into another, thus changing it to another species. This research is being reported as the first step in creating an artificial life form from scratch. You can read a BBC report, a report in New Scientist magazine or listen to Ira Flatow talk to Craig Ventner on last week's NPR's Science Friday.

This time last year: follow up on some of the examples from class, Coevolution and Speciation Examples.