Question: Is transgenic food really the future for human beings?
Keywords: biotech, food, gm, transgenic
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Hey Swiftie,
Not really. I think it has its merits in certain conditions where you may need a strong trait (i.e disease resistance or herbicide resistance). However there are about ~30,000 genes in a given plant and many are required to work together to produce a product. Mastering all of these genes through transgenics is a difficult task best left to evolution to sort out. Transgenics is essential to understand what these genes do and how to manipulate them through breeding or transgenics.
Cheers,
Brent
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Swiftie, Brent is right.
I think future will have a mix of transgenic, non-transgenic, cisgenic, intergenic and who knows what all new stuff will turn up.
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Hey Swiftie,
I’m with Brent and Harjeet on this one! They’re the experts after all 🙂
Bec
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I see the others have done a great job on this one and they are qualified to do that!
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