Genetically modified food (more correctly, genetically engineered food or transgenic food, and often abbreviated as GM, #GMOand GMF) is any food derived from organisms which had their genomes modified using the technique of #DNA recombination. Via DNA recombination, genetic material is isolated from one organism and introduced into another. DNA recombination has the advantages that the source and target organisms need not be sexually compatible and that transfer of genes can be highly specific, unlike conventional breeding, which requires sexual compatibility and results in offspring with a mixture of traits from both parents.
Since the early 2000s, GM has become a subject of intense debate. Current scientific consensus is that GMF is as safe for human consumption as organic food. While nuanced criticism does exist, opponents of GMF have an unfortunate habit of slipping into #pseudoscience
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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food#Environmental_impact_of_GM_herbicide_resistance
So, maybe you can clarify for me the thing I hear the most...hybridizing, say corn, or apples, but using two different apples or corn stains does or doesn't fall under GMO GMF? They aren't fiddling with the DNA of either parent, or are they?
Clearly, I am not up to date on this, despite in being a news thing for decades.
@Sfwmson There are some similarities in the ideas but also some differences. For within-species hybridization multiple traits from both strains appear in the hybrid.
For GMO, it is usually a single trait that is extracted from one species which does not appear in any strain of the target species, and is inserted into the target, resulting in an organism that could not appear in nature in any reasonable human timespan through hybridization alone.
An example is golden rice, which is rice that had bacterial and daffodil genes inserted into rice DNA to resulting in rice that produces vitamin A (beta-carotene).
#RationalWiki #goldenrice #gmo
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Golden_Rice
Thank you. I have to local friends, one an environmentalist one a professor of animal science and they used to go round and round. It always seemed to me to be the way you explained it.