What Are GMO Foods?

GMOs are foods modified by genetic engineering, to which genes from other organisms were implanted to achieve the desired characteristics.

The science in charge of handling DNA is genetic engineering, also known as recombinant technology. This is the one that alters or modifies genes, and recombines them, achieving the extraction of a specific Biological taxon and implantation in another, elimination and alteration of genes.

Classical enhancement is the science that introduces DNA fragments indirectly through assisted crossing. Plant biotechnology is the tool to directly manipulate genes. The processes can be carried out through non-invasive actions with plant biotechnology, unrelated to genetic engineering such as the fusion of protoplasts.

The improvement of plants has always been a problem to be solved for humans, and it is after the discovery of plant reproduction that carried out the first intergenetic crossing (between species with different genes) and in 1927 mutants with higher productivity were obtained by means of x-ray irradiation of seeds. By 1983, the first transgenic plant was produced. A company called Monsato creates the first genetically modified plant; a tobacco plant that became resistant to the antibiotic Kanamycin. The presence of transgenic foods is greater in corn, barley or soybeans.

At present, the first mixed transgenics and animals have been developed:

The former are like corn to which fish genes have been added to increase its resistance and the latter are like AquaBuntu salmon, which was created with two foreign genes; one by means of which it becomes more resistant to cold, taken from another species of fish and another gene taken from another species of salmon, which accelerates its growth, the latter being authorized for consumption in USA