1. Genetic Modification of Foodstuffs
Genetic Modification of Foodstuffs Virtually every crop we eat have undergone hundreds of years of genetic modification by farmers and scientist in search of desirable traits. ... Over the past 30 years however, genetic engineering has been revolutionized. While before, a farmer wanting to develop a frost resistant tomato would be able to breed towards one only if the necessary genes were available somewhere in tomatoes or a near relative to tomatoes, modern biological engineering techniques overcome such restrictions. ... Containing genes that produce a unusually high amount of beta-carote...
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