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The geneticist Dan Koboldt observes that while science and technology play major roles in fiction, from fantasy and science fiction to thrillers, the representation of science in both literature and film is often unrealistic. [28] In Koboldt's view, genetics in fiction is frequently oversimplified, and some myths are common and need to be debunked.
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Fiction about biological themes such as genetics, cloning, genetic engineering, disease, or other aspects of biology. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Boris Karloff in James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein, based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel.The monster is created by an unorthodox biology experiment.. Biology appears in fiction, especially but not only in science fiction, both in the shape of real aspects of the science, used as themes or plot devices, and in the form of fictional elements, whether fictional extensions or applications of ...
This category lists characters in literature, television, film, and comic books that are transgenics; i.e. have had their genes manipulated due to genetic engineering See also the categories Genetically modified organisms , Fictional geneticists , and Fiction about genetic engineering
In The Chrysalids by science fiction author John Wyndham, a post-apocalyptic, fundamentalist society views genetic mutation as a blasphemy and the work of the Devil; not realizing it is the result of radiation from a world-wide nuclear war that occurred over a thousand years before. In order to prevent another tribulation, they follow a strict ...
Orphan Black is a Canadian science fiction television series revolving around the main character, Sarah Manning, as she discovers the existence of several of her genetic clones. It is revealed in the ninth episode of the third season, "Insolvent Phantom of Tomorrow", that the original source of the genetic material for both the female clones ...
A common feature of biopunk fiction is the "black clinic", which is a laboratory, clinic, or hospital that performs illegal, unregulated, or ethically dubious biological modification and genetic engineering procedures. [2] Many features of biopunk fiction have their roots in William Gibson's Neuromancer, one of the first cyberpunk novels. [3]