What are Genetically Modified Crops

Date Submitted: 09/08/2004 13:43:19
Category: / Science & Technology
Length: 3 pages (950 words)
For thousands of years we have tried to select plants for improved yield, growth or food characteristics. In the past, this has been done by selective breeding, selecting the plants with desired characteristics and crossing it with another plant with other desired characteristics. As a result a new variety of the plant formed at a much faster rate that would occur in the wild. The problem with this was when plants were crossed with ancestral …
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