It has been used in increasing the production plant and animal food, developing disease-resistant plants, diagnosing disease, improving medical treatments, and producing vaccines and other useful drugs. ... This method is most commonly for increased food production; only the plants and animals that have desirable characteristics are chosen for reproduction. ... This is done by changing the protein makeup of an organism; which results in an alteration of its characteristics. ... The introduction of Bt cotton, a now widely grown crop kills several pests that would have previously harmed cotton ...

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I hope to accomplish a proof that a flowering plant evolved from an oscillatria. ... This organism possesses the same attributes as the euglena except for one major evolutionary characteristic. ... Starch is a major component of a plant and the presence of starch in an early organism like the chlamydoma can only lead to the idea that this was the first organism in the evolution of the plant. ... The concrete evidence that the land plant evolved from the microscopic organisms like the paramecium. ... These "plants" are the first to display rhizoids or roots in order to live on land. ...

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The remains of plants and animals found in sedimentary rock deposits give scientists an indisputable record of past changes through time. ... Specific characteristics from their parents by inheriting particular combinations of genes are received by all plants and animals. ... Consequently, their characteristics will be more frequent in the following generation. ... Due to selective breeding, people have urbanized many new varieties of plants and animals. Organisms will more commonly have the preferred characteristics because the individuals in the generation before lacking the sought-after...

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This includes the different species of plants, animals and microorganisms that make up an ecosystem. ... DNA determines organism's physical characteristics (for example in humans DNA would determine a persons eye/hair/skin colour) and their abilities or inabilities. ... For example, many agricultural farmers cultivate monocultures- large populations of genetically identical plants- therefore having the same abilities and inabilities. Although all the plants may flourish in the same conditions at the same time, this also makes them all susceptible to the same parasite or changing environ...

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With developing genetic techniques, it may become possible to select certain characteristics for children, obviously with a price tag. ... This is not only the case for humans; plants, crops and animals also have the potential to be redesigned to better suit our needs. ... The need for pesticides could be reduced all over the world with the possibility of injecting plants with bio engineered viruses that would kill bugs and other creatures that attack plants, could possibly also enhance crops to make them resistant to disease. ...

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This ability for organic systems to store energy is due to their highly complex physical characteristics that they do not share with inorganic systems. The developments of these characteristics do not inherently cause the organism to store energy, but they do enable that organism to store energy. ... This is due to a rather complex process that is unique to higher developed animals and plants. ... Theistic philosophers referred to these characteristics as "creative flashes". ... These new characteristics are enabling conditions of the development of rational thought. ...

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Subclass Pelobiontae includes one genus, Pelomyxa, large cells which lack almost every characteristic of eukaryotic cells except the existence of a membrane-bound nucleus; these cells' nuclei divide like bacterial nucleoids. ...

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