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transgenic organism
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transgenic organism

Plant, animal, bacterium, or other living organism that has had a foreign gene added to it by means of genetic engineering. In terms of laboratory research, transgenic manipulations of organisms have become well-established scientific procedures which are finding progressively more applications in the health and food industries.

The first genetically-modified primate, a rhesus monkey, was born in January 2001. The monkey had a gene from a jellyfish, that was inserted into an unfertilized monkey egg at the Regional Primate Research Centre, Portland, Oregon, USA.



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Among other things, buyers are being discouraged from maintaining a zero-tolerance policy for accidental commingling of minute quantities of genetically modified organism (GMO) wheat in non-GMO cargoes.
Many of those who would be vigilant about avoiding genetically modified foods are oblivious to the fact that the cotton clothes they wear are likely derived from genetically modified organisms.
The demonstrators demanded an end to the proliferation of genetically modified organisms and a ban on the use of biotech weapons.
 
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