... be cloned (that is, duplicated) in large quantities. The subsequently produced protein can then be removed from the host, purified, and used as a genetically engineered product in humans, other animals, plants, or bacteria or viruses. Bt Cotton China's research in agricultural biotechnology began in the early 1980s, when the focus was mainly on genetic engineering and molecular marking. Research centered on ... findings in agriculture have progressed rapidly. By the end of 1996, Chinese scientists had conducted research on 47 kinds of transgenic plants involving 103 genes. Among one of ...

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... " (Shirk35). This approach was tied heavily Harris 5 to the development of China's oil reserves. "When in 1978 estimates of the oil reserves were revised downward, commitments to import plants and expand heavy industry could not be sustained" (Shirk 35). Deng took advantage of this economic crisis to discredit Hua and aim for leadership of the party. "Reform policies became Deng's platform against Hua for post ... 40). The economy grew so quickly that inflation occurred and the government had to reinstitute price controls. China's economy retains these characteristics of potential for gr...

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... , large trading markets, huge advances in the sciences and arts and their forms of monumental architecture. But still differed in many ways in the same characteristics. For instance, the Indus and the Chinese were very similar in their specializations in labor. As a result of cultivating plants and the domestication of animals, both civilizations allowed their people to spend time doing other things that weren't ... At the time, silk weaving was a new Chinese discovery and because China and the Indus were separated by the Himalayas and the vast deserts, these two civilizations didn't hav...

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