What is Genetic Modification?
In agriculture,
genetic engineering allows genetic traits
to
be changed to crops from wild relatives, other distantly related
plants, or virtually any other organisms. In other words, with
this new
breakthrough in GMO technology you could cross-bread a dandelion with
wheat and make a new plant.
"Recombinant DNA technology has brought a new precision to the operation of crop development which traditionally selects desired traits through crosses between crops and their wild relatives. Genetic Modification (GM) can be used in a lot of ways to control a variety of traits of plants. The consequences of only one manipulation may be a lot different from another, based on the traits that are changed or modified." There is some concern that genetic modification may be spread to crops as a result of things that happen in nature, such as pollination.
"Recombinant DNA technology has brought a new precision to the operation of crop development which traditionally selects desired traits through crosses between crops and their wild relatives. Genetic Modification (GM) can be used in a lot of ways to control a variety of traits of plants. The consequences of only one manipulation may be a lot different from another, based on the traits that are changed or modified." There is some concern that genetic modification may be spread to crops as a result of things that happen in nature, such as pollination.
Information taken from http://scope.educ.washington.edu/gmfood/index.php
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