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The park maintains, and is defined by, the city zoo.The existing Toronto Zoo would be relocated from its current subur- ban location to the site down- town, and it would be enhanced with bioengineered plants and animals.

The bioengineered beings are a stock of genetically modified creatures that are already available to us today, and will be tomorrow.Through recombinant DNA practices, we already make beings that heretofore never existed.We have spliced phosphorescence genes from fireflies and jellyfish into plants and animals to make glow in the dark trees and trotters.We have tomatoes that resist freezing by hosting antifreeze genes from fish.We can easily change the color of peppers, even the taste.We have made cloned goats, transgenically modified with spider genes, to secrete spider silk for military and industrial applications.These are the ‘designer’ plants and animals of the biotech sector.

When the electrons are trapped in the quantum dot, they behave as though they were swirling about the nucleus of an atom even though no protons and neutrons are present.The number of electrons that are trapped determines the kind of atom they will emulate. So nanophiles are speculating about the possibility of making one atom become another by altering the number of electrons, as electrons can be added or removed from the quantum dot. For example, a Mercury atom would become a Gold atom if one electron were to be removed. Interestingly, electrons trapped in adjacent dots will also form chemical bonds, just as their natural atomic counterparts do to form molecules. By programming the addition and removal of electrons, we might change the very essence of a molecular substance. But we are not so limited. Because we can introduce any number of electrons into these artificial atoms we can produce new atomic structures that are not yet known.

With nanotechnology, we would not be bound to the stable atomic elements that are presently available to us. We would be designing atoms. Now think big. An architecture of meshed electric nanofibres, that act as quantum dots, could produce replicants of any desirable atoms by trapping and moving any number of electrons.Your Gold walls could be your Salt walls too, or any other substance at the turn of a switch. One extraordinary and unique characteristic of this nanotechnology is related to weight.The substance would appear to be Gold, or Salt, or any other substance, but would not have the same mass as those natural substances. As the electrons emulate atomic structures, but are without a nucleus, they don’t have the same mass as the natural and synthetic atoms that are listed in the Periodic Table of the Elements.Your Gold would, instead, have the mass of the electro-trellis that supports it.

Of particular concern is the as- sociations between the Zoo lands and the places of human activity, work, and dwelling. Here, recom- binant materials and analogies present provocative associations between natural and artificial compositions.

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