GMO stands for genetically modified organisms. These organism's, genetic material have been altered using techniques usually known as recombinant DNA technology. Recombinant DNA technology is the ability to combine DNA molecules from different sources. Therefore the genes of the organism is altered and modified. The idea of GMO was first created in 1973 by Stanley H. Cohen and Herbert Boyer. This idea was taken to another level by Rudolf Jaenisch in 1974; he successfully managed to insert …
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…There are potential human health impacts that include allergens, the transfer of antibiotic resistance markers, an unknown effect of potential environmental impact and an unintended transfer of transgenes as well as an effect on other organisms. Hybridization is different from genetic modification in many ways. Hybridization is the utilization of different genes but from the same specie of organism whereas in genetic modification there is a use of different genes to modify a certain organism.