Genetic Engineering
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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When plants are genetically modified, they are usually crossed with a normal plant to help achieve desired traits.
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Crops are modified to be herbicide tolerant, insect resistant, and virus resistant.
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New genes in nuts and other foods may be the cause of life threatening allergic reactions to food.
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Less than 5% of cloned animals survive, and most that do have severe health problems.
A cloned beagle named Ruppy can glow in the dark.
One of the first genetically modified animals approved for human consumption is salmon.
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Scientists are using glow in the dark cats to study AIDS.
Scientists are working on bananas with vaccines in them so they could be grown in developing countries where diseases such as cholera are common.
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