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Genetic engineering

 A pregnant couple decides that they want their little angel to look the part – a little genetic
tampering gives them an infant with wings

 After exploring the far reaches of the universe, humans discover very few earth-like planets.
Scientists try to create new breeds of humans that can survive in inhospitable planets

 Omicron Unlimited offers prospective parents an invaluable service: by genetically altering


their embryos, the company can insure that their children will be intelligent, attractive, and
healthy. Twenty years later, the genetically-altered children are ready to have children of
their own. However, there is a problem: Omicron Unlimited owns their DNA. They have to
purchase the right to reproduce.

 Variation: Omicron Unlimited engineers the children with self-destructing genes. They will
die on their twenty-first birthdays, unless they pay for special medication. And, of course,
the pills are very, very expensive…

 A medical research company gives an extra boost of intelligence to monkeys, so they can
work as servants to humans. Unfortunately, the new line of apes might be a little bit too
smart…

 A group of male scientists works secretly to genetically engineer a line of very beautiful but
very unintelligent human females – When their plan is discovered and made public, they
receive both support and condemnation.

 The government, struggling to attract employees for low-level jobs, genetically engineers a
new breed of human that are unable to feel boredom.

 After years of protests by animal rights activists, a meat packing plant genetically engineers a
new breed of pigs that slaughter themselves.

 Genetic experiments with parrots lead to a dramatic increase in their intelligence. The
parrots escape the lab and reproduce, becoming as common as sparrows. Eventually,
suburbanites cannot leave the house without having insults and criticisms hurled at them
from the trees.

Cloning

 A man clones his ex-wife over and over, the marriage failing each time

 A woman cloning her children repeatedly, keeping them as small children forever

 A lonely man clones himself, but switches the sex chromosomes to “XX”

 In the future, celebrities have to jealously guard their DNA, lest they be cloned without their
permission

 Variation – Celebrities sell their DNA, so that childless couples could have babies cloned
from the stars.
 Scientists develop a way for humans to be nearly immortal. Older people have their minds
loaded into younger clones of themselves. A husband and wife decide to sue after a
technical glitch puts them in each other’s bodies

 Variation – A dying woman is cloned and, when her clone finally turns twenty-one, her mind
is loaded into the clone’s brain. Due to a computer glitch, the clone’s mind is not erased.
Both minds are trapped together in the same body.

 A man clones himself and his parents so he can relive his childhood

 The latest celebrity scandal involves an A-list actor who was caught in bed with his own
clone.

 Frustrated with the way the government is run, a man clones himself enough times that his
vote controls every election.

 After taking part in a strange scientific experiment, a man develops the ability to reproduce
asexually like a single-celled organism.

 The government hires an assassin to kill a scientist who is working on dangerous


experiments in genetic engineering. When the assassin arrives at the scientist’s lab, he
discovers that the scientist has cloned himself dozens and dozens of times.

 Afraid of being assassinated by terrorists, the President has himself cloned half a dozen
times. He feels much safer at first, but then the clones decide that they want all the political
power to themselves.

 A woman finds her husband in bed with another woman. Oddly, the “other” woman is also
her.

 Variation – A geneticist asks his wife if she would ever consider a threesome. When she
agrees, she discovers that the threesome is a little different than she had imagined…

Mutation

 A lab accident mixes a veterinarian’s DNA with that of a house cat. When her husband sees
her for the first time, he is completely comfortable with her new appearance. Perhaps too
comfortable…

 After being exposed to toxic waste, a handyman sprouts a third arm. At first, the new
appendage comes in handy and the man is rather pleased. But then, he sprouts a fourth
arm… and a fifth… and a sixth…

 Variation – Exposure to toxic waste leaves a musician with four extra arms. He gives a whole
new meaning to the phrase “one man band.”

 A mad scientist runs an unusual “dating service.” He kidnaps women from neighboring
towns and transforms them into human/animal hybrids. These exotic creatures are sold to
wealthy men looking for exotic mates. The business is a success until the scientist changes a
beautiful martial arts expert into a half-leopard…
 A strange mutation in human DNA leads to a new fatal disease: boredom. The instant
humans grow tired of life, they die.

 Before he can purchase medical insurance, a man is forced to undergo a detailed


examination. The doctors discover that the man’s blood contains inactive DNA in
microscopic “seeds.” The DNA for thousands of extinct animals is pulsing through his veins.

Evolution

 A planet where intelligent life evolved from insects. After sex, the women to eat their
husbands. The wedding night is hell.

 Humans are gradually replaced by highly-evolved squirrels

 Earth sends a sleeper ship to a distant world. Sadly, the ship’s computer malfunctions, only
reviving the tubes containing the passenger’s pets. Thousands of years later, the earth
develops a faster-than-light spacecraft, sending new colonists into space. They discover that
the new world is controlled by the decedents of the passengers’ pets, which have evolved
into intelligent bipeds.

 Variation – A sleeper ship heads off into space for a journey that will last eons. When the
ship finally arrives at the new world, the passengers are awakened, and shocked to discover
that 1. The ship left earth with a cargo hold full of cockroaches and 2. The cockroaches have
evolved intelligence.

 Variation – A newlywed couple buys what they think is their dream house. However, they
soon discover that 1. Their house is infested with cockroaches, 2. Their house is located atop
a toxic waste dump, and 3. The cockroaches are evolving.

 A teenager refuses to invite any of his friends over to his house, and he won’t even tell them
where he lives. After arguing about it all summer, one of his friends finds out why: his
parents are cavemen.

 In the Middle Ages, humans split off into two subspecies, one with wings, one without. The
winged humans can attack bomb the castles of their enemies from the sky, far out of reach
of the non-winged humans’ weapons.

 Scientists construct the most powerful computer ever build to study human evolution. The
computer runs a simulation of the human life on earth, allowing them to see how humans
will evolve in the future. What they discover is so horrifying they decide that humanity must
be exterminated for its own good.

 An alien comes to earth with technology that, he claims, can dramatically increase the speed
of human evolution. However, the technology creates a new kind of “generation gap,”
psychically gifted children who think of their parents as backward cavemen.

 A group of scientists and politicians believe that humanity is “de-evolving.” They believe that
medical care and the ease of modern life has virtually eliminated “survival of the fittest.” In
order to insure that only the strongest survive, they develop a plan: bring back the
dinosaurs. Only those strong and smart enough to avoid being eaten will reproduce.

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