Not exact matches
Over the past two
years, Pioneer has stressed its use
of molecular
breeding to improve its soy varieties, most
of which are also
genetically modified.
The study shows that even if both types
of fish
breed in the same streams at the same time
of year and have been interbreeding all along, they are splitting into two
genetically and physically different types.
Here is my issue with
genetically modified crops — the crops that are modified inside a lab and not through cross
breeding, the original genetic modification that has been going on for thousands
of years.
Jenna, she is a
breed of pig who has been
genetically modified to be obese - there is really nothing anyone can do about that: - / those type
of pigs are not expected to live longer than 1,5
year.
Those existing today are
bred in captivity as part
of a conservation effort to preserve the
breed, which
genetically seems to have stemmed from dogs brought with human travelers from China (the oldest remains
of a New Guinea singing dog is a tooth dated to about 5,500
years ago).
For all these
years, she has always strived to produce the most
genetically pure animals possible, in the continual pursuit
of sheer excellence in her
breeding program.
Years of selective
breeding has had the side - effect that some
breeds are
genetically predisposed to conditions which shorten life - the reverse
of hybrid vigour.