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EmmaRainboe said:
Not exactly how indepth of an answer you're looking for, so...

short answer: GMO =Genetically Modified Organism

When most people think of GMO they think of like people manipulating DNA in a lab, but really GMOs are as simple as selective breeding

Really most of our modern day crops are genetically modified in some way, whether selected for size, or growth speed, or whatever.

Corn is one of the most referenced examples because corn used to be very different, it was a lot smaller, with much fewer kernels, and they were in like a shelly thing

But like really most of our food are GMOs and have been selectively bred for certain traits.
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GMO is not as simple as selective "breeding".

I don't know where you got the idea that corn was much smaller before GMO. We grew corn before there was GMO and our corn was every bit as big as the corn currently on the market.

"GM is a technology that involves inserting DNA into the genome of an organism. To produce a GM plant, new DNA is transferred into plant cells. Usually, the cells are then grown in tissue culture where they develop into plants. The seeds produced by these plants will inherit the new DNA."
 
R2elk said:
I don't know where you got the idea that corn was much smaller before GMO.
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I can tell you exactly where I learned about the corn. It was from a conversation I had with Sir Richard Robert's (Nobel prize winner in RNAsplicing), last summer at the Conference of Future Medical Leaders in Boston.


Your cited sources are not incorrect, and is refering to GMO technology and is that people think of when they think of GMOs,

The orinigal method GMO technology involves inserting one or more genes into an unknown location and seeing what happened.

And more modern modern technology such as CRISPR allows for more precise modifications such as inserting specific mutations.


But humans have been manipulating and cross breeding plants for centuries to produce the desired outcomes, which by definition, is also genetic modification.
 

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