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Food Health
WHAT IS A GMO
TERMINATOR GENE?
GMO is a crop made was done crudely by using another, to alter the DNA and
by taking a normal a gene gun to shoot or blast give a plant or animal new
A crop and unnaturally these desirable genes from the characteristics.
infusing genetic material unrelated species into the gene
from an related species: plant, of the target plant. Then there is RNA interference
animal, bacteria, virus or germ However, nowadays, new that can be used to change
into the plant’s DNA to give the technologies have been the RNA messenger signals
plant desirable characteristics engineered to allow scientists to cause the development of
from the unrelated species. to edit genes by cutting out an new DNA code and sequence
undesired DNA sequence to to give the organism new
Back in the days, gene editing insert a desired sequence from characteristics. This apparently
is how the mRNA vaccine got
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