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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.
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> > Genetic Modification can produce DNA alterations that could never occur
> > by hybridisation. For example fish, virus and soil bacteria genes inserted
> > into plants.
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> Viruses insert their genes into plants all the time. It's what viruses
> do. Usually the result is a dead plant, sometimes things go wrong for
> the virus.

I was referring to proteins from human viruses being inserted into
plants.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ccine-success-
comes-too-late.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3887517.stm

Janet.