GMO Safety Hunter Brown University of Iowa Introduction For twelve millennia humans have crossed-breed the best of two crops or animals in the hopes of spawning a better version of the two. It is how we get a diversity of crops and livestock such as bok choi, bananas, corn, domesticated horses, and cows. Today, we have accelerated and expanded upon artificial selection to the point where we can add traits form one organism to another directly. This advancement in technology has given us new farming techniques, treatment, and even new organisms. Genetically modified organisms (GMO) are any living things whose genetic information has been altered through genetic engineering. This can be brought through gene therapy, artificial selection, or shooting ultraviolet light at a plant to induce mutations. Changes introduced to crops can give them the ability to be drought resistance, pesticide/herbicide resistance, and more nutrition. ...
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