On Mar 24, 3:57*pm, Janet > wrote:
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> * 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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> * Janet.

How about lichens? Made up of a combination of plant and fungi.
How about humans? Made up of (at least) a combination of animal and
bacteria? Just two examples of many.