By Victoria Woollaston Taking inspiration from the forbidden fruit that tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, a bio artist wants to create his own version of the tree of knowledge - using Wikipedia. Joe Davis from Harvard’s genetics lab has devised a mathematical formula to add layers of data to DNA. He now plans to add a decoded version of the online encyclopaedia into the DNA of a 4,000-year-old strain of apple, which he claims is the closest he could get to fruit from the biblical tale. Scroll down for video The Malus ecclesia project is the brainchild of bio artist Joe Davis from Harvard Medical School's genetics lab. He created a mathematical formula to add layers of information to the DNA of a 4,000-year-old apple, stock image pictured, because it is 'the closest thing to fruit grown in the Garden of Eden'
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The Malus ecclesia project is the brainchild of bio artist Joe Davis
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He created a mathematical formula to add layers of information to DNA
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The top 50,000 pages of Wikipedia will be added into the DNA of an apple
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Davis, 63, used the roots and leaves of a 4,000-year-old strain of apple to make it 'the closest fruit to that grown in the Garden of Eden'
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The 63-year-old previously coded Greek writing into the genes of a fly
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