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Default How to identify GMO food at the supermarket...if you care to.
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How different is GMA compared to the cross breeding
> that has been done for centuries already?

What has happened for centuries, is hybridisation (cross fertilisation)
within a species or genus.

Genetic Modification can produce DNA alterations that could never occur
by hybridisation. For example fish, virus and soil bacteria genes inserted
into plants.

Janet.
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