Volume : III, Issue : XII, December - 2014

Genetically Modified Crops: Boon or Bane

Dr. Parveen Garg

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Intervention by mankind in biodiversity is as old as agriculture itself in the form of conventional eeding or first generation biotechnology also known as traditional biotechnology. By definition, biotechnology is any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific uses (1). The definition encompasses traditional biotechnology and traditional animal plant and animal eeding. It also includes modern biotechnologies such as genetic modification. Genetic modification (GM) is the artificial insertion of a specific gene, which controls as specific characteristic from one organism to another organism in ways that do not occur through natural crossing and recombination. Traditional methods of gene exchange are limited to crosses between the same or very closely related species, a footing which modern biotechnology (genetic engineering or genetic modification) departs from by facilitating gene transfer between species irrespective of taxonomic positioning. An organism that has been modified or transformed using such latest techniques of molecular biology is commonly referred to as a genetically modified organism (GMO).

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Dr. Parveen Garg Genetically Modified Crops: Boon or Bane International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 3, Issue : 12 December 2014

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