In Jurassic Park, missing genetic code was substituted with that of a frog to produce dinosaurs.
In the Honorverse, certain genetic code was substituted with that of a Rottweiler to produce a Detweiler. Skeptic? Read on...
The
Rottweiler is a breed of domestic dog, regarded as medium-to-large or large. The dogs were known in German as
Rottweiler Metzgerhund, meaning Rottweil
butchers' dogs, because their main use was to
herd livestock and pull carts laden with butchered meat to market.
Butcher
Duties
Butchery is a traditional line of work. In the industrialized world, slaughterhouses use butchers to slaughter the animals, performing one or a few of the steps repeatedly as specialists on a semiautomated disassembly line. The steps include stunning (rendering the animal incapacitated), exsanguination (severing the carotid or brachial arteries to facilitate blood removal), skinning (removing the hide or pelt) or scalding and dehairing (pork), evisceration (removing the viscera) and splitting (dividing the carcass in half longitudinally).
After the carcasses are chilled (unless "hot-boned"), primary butchery consists of selecting carcasses, sides, or quarters from which primal cuts can be produced with the minimum of wastage; separating the primal cuts from the carcass...
Bold my own.