Biology / Unit 7 Bio 1545 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Genetic Engineering and Transgenic Organisms
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The idea
Genetic engineering alters an organism's genotype using recombinant DNA technology; an organism receiving DNA from a different species this way is transgenic.
In practice
A crop plant engineered to carry a bacterial gene it does not naturally possess is a transgenic organism.
Where people slip
An organism is transgenic when inserted DNA comes from a different species — a GMO more broadly covers any deliberate genome alteration.
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