I got interested in genetic engineering based on this specific idea from a Ben Bova sci fi book some 35 years ago (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302503.Exiled_from_Earth). There's an primate that has been genetically engineered to speak (they also had to edit some genes to make the throat more capable of human vocalizations). I read that and kind of looked at the front cover of my Biology book, which had a picture of a tobacco plant with a luciferase gene cloned in (a gene from fireflies, in plants, will make the plant glow).
Turns out doing actual experiments like this is far more complicated, ethically as well as technologically, than even many scientists appreciate.
Turns out doing actual experiments like this is far more complicated, ethically as well as technologically, than even many scientists appreciate.