Come to a Family Genetics Night and learn about the GloFish! GloFish were originally bred to help detect environmental pollutants. By adding a natural fluorescence gene to the fish, scientists hope to one day quickly and easily determine when a waterway is contaminated. The first step in developing a pollution-detecting fish was to create fish that would be fluorescent all the time. Scientists soon realized the public's interest in sharing the benefits of this research, a process which lead to GloFish fluorescent fish! This was from the 2nd Family Genetics night and the theme was Genetic Engineering.
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