GMO-- Just to clear this issue up and so we know.
On one of the topics here we had a discussion about GMO and it's meaning. I stated that All living organisms are a GMO, including you and I. At the time I could not remember the correct word to describe what some of you were describing as GMO. So I search another board where we last discussed it over there and found it.
The word is:"transgenic.
But I was correct in saying artificial insemination, embryo transplant ( maybe ) and gene selection is GMO engineering.
When I listed to all the anti GMO activists, they describe "transgenic engineering, not Genetic engineering. And that just goes to show you how much they know about what they are against.
So is a calf produced from cross breeding a product of GMO or transgenic??
On one of the topics here we had a discussion about GMO and it's meaning. I stated that All living organisms are a GMO, including you and I. At the time I could not remember the correct word to describe what some of you were describing as GMO. So I search another board where we last discussed it over there and found it.
The word is:"transgenic.
Biology
adjective: transgenic
1. of, relating to, or denoting an organism that contains genetic material into which DNA from an unrelated organism has been artificially introduced.
So I was incorrect in saying you and I are genetically engineered. Unless our mother went to a sperm bank.Where as Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can be defined as organisms (i.e. plants, animals or microorganisms) in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination.
But I was correct in saying artificial insemination, embryo transplant ( maybe ) and gene selection is GMO engineering.
When I listed to all the anti GMO activists, they describe "transgenic engineering, not Genetic engineering. And that just goes to show you how much they know about what they are against.
So is a calf produced from cross breeding a product of GMO or transgenic??