1. Genetic Engineering
The product being used was a potato which had been engineered to express an insecticidal compound (lectin) from the snow drop plant. ... In agriculture, genetic engineering allows simple genetic traits to be transferred to crop plants from wild relatives, other distantly related plants, or virtually any other organism. Genetic Modification cab be used in many ways to control a variety of traits of plants, and the consequences of one manipulation may be completely different from another based on the traits modified." ... He discovered, while working with pea pants that some of the characteri...
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