Originally Posted by GreenPiggy
here goes,
1.Many vaccines are made using evolutionary principles, a virus is mutated into an out of body form, thus lowering its resistance to the defence mechanisms of the human body.
2.Most modern agricultural techniques are based on Darwinian principles such as selective breeding etc..
3.Evolutionary trees can be mapped to trace a source of infection, for example it can be used to trace a HIV infection from a rapist using source material from the victim or a similar situation.
4.Enzymes are being evolved to work in detergents (which they don't normally do). And as the stuff of futuristic novels, molecules are being developed to bind anthrax spores, ricin molecules, and other potential bioterrorism agents. All of these developments take advantage of one or more forms of test-tube evolution.