It is an organism (plant, animal, etc.) is transgenic if some of its genes come from a different species, they could have been inserted into its germplasm, through genetic engineering, or the organism could be the clone, or offspring, of a genetically engineered organism. ... The idea that there were factors controlling an organism's characteristics, and that these factors were inherited in a predictable way, was first discovered by Gregor Mendel, in 1900, his factors were given the name "genes" which carried on chromosomes. ... Frost damage is huge on crops, the damage is caused by the f...

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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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In humans the 23rd pair of chromosomes is the sex chromosomes, which determine the sex of an individual and carry sex-linked characteristics. ... Most of the multicellular plants and animals we know have cells containing membrane bound structures and are therefore called eukaryotes. ... The majority of plant protein-coding genes contain introns, which must be removed from pre-mRNAs to produce mRNAs for translation into proteins. ...

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