Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of or methodology used to create transgenic organisms.
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- noun Plural form of
transgenic . - noun The study and practice of
genetic modification by inserting genes from one species into the genetic material of another species.
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Fact vs. Fiction As the Bt brinjal episode highlights, using GM seeds -- often referred to as "transgenics" -- to increase food production and lower production costs is fraught with controversy.
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Fact vs. Fiction As the Bt brinjal episode highlights, using GM seeds -- often referred to as "transgenics" -- to increase food production and lower production costs is fraught with controversy.
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Fact vs. Fiction As the Bt brinjal episode highlights, using GM seeds -- often referred to as "transgenics" -- to increase food production and lower production costs is fraught with controversy.
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This technology is known as transgenics, and it was first demonstrated in 1973.
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Spegg is going to use the array to contact an army of transgenics and bring them to present day Earth?
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The second book, The Dragon Factory, deals with Eugenics, transgenics, ethnic cleansing and the rise of a cabal of modern day Nazis.
Interview with Jonathan Maberry, author of Patient Zero 2009
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It has also kicked off a new round of debate over the merits and threats of transgenics in general, a debate that Lovera declines to participate, sticking with the stable ground of legal enforcement.
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It has also kicked off a new round of debate over the merits and threats of transgenics in general, a debate that Lovera declines to participate, sticking with the stable ground of legal enforcement.
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Has Oxfam never heard of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), which -- under the aegis of the World Bank, of all institutions -- took an extremely skeptical position viz. patented transgenics as a solution to climate change-related ag problems in the global south?
Paula Crossfield: Who Owns Our Food? Thoughts on a New Green Revolution 2009
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This first generation of transgenics were mostly cash crops, such as herbicide-resistant soybeans and maize.
Crops With Attitude 2009
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