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Max Power
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G'day Max Power, Thank you for your question. Genetically modified foods come from genetically modified organisms that have had part of their genome taken from another organism. Selective breeding is where a plant or animal is progressively bred over time to encourage certain traits - however, the genome of the species isn't changed. Regards Wikipedia Genetically Modified Foods http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_food Food and Agriculture Organisation report http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y5160e/y5160e00.HTM New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/gm-food British Medical Association http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/LIBGeneticallyModifiedFood
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No. Selective breeding is only breeding the plants or animals with desireable traits, and produces noticable results over several generations. Genetic modification is actually screwing around with the genes to produce a change over only one generation.
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