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- noun Plural form of
transgene .
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Examples
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We've only been at it for ~35 years, and one of these days – if we let it proceed apace – it will be impossible to tell the transgenes from the indigenous genes.
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Plant breeders put things called transgenes into plants to give them desirable properties such as disease resistance.
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These "transgenes" produce unusual effects in their host plants.
Fore, right! < 2010
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"The decision squashed a proposed compromise between the biotech industry and its opponents that would have placed geographic restrictions on Roundup Ready alfalfa to prevent organic and traditional alfalfa from being contaminated by herbicide sprays and transgenes spread by cross-pollination and other factors," Ludwig reports.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Monsanto's Mutant Alfalfa and the Feral Pig Invasion The Media Consortium 2011
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"The decision squashed a proposed compromise between the biotech industry and its opponents that would have placed geographic restrictions on Roundup Ready alfalfa to prevent organic and traditional alfalfa from being contaminated by herbicide sprays and transgenes spread by cross-pollination and other factors," Ludwig reports.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Monsanto's Mutant Alfalfa and the Feral Pig Invasion The Media Consortium 2011
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"The decision squashed a proposed compromise between the biotech industry and its opponents that would have placed geographic restrictions on Roundup Ready alfalfa to prevent organic and traditional alfalfa from being contaminated by herbicide sprays and transgenes spread by cross-pollination and other factors," Ludwig reports.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Monsanto's Mutant Alfalfa and the Feral Pig Invasion The Media Consortium 2011
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As the 2009 report "Agriculture at a Crossroads" puts it: "Despite technical solutions to prevent such gene movement … and traditional plant variety purity protocols, no method is likely to be completely effective in preventing movement of transgenes."
Just because GM is gaining popularity doesn't make it right Lucy Siegle 2010
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"The decision squashed a proposed compromise between the biotech industry and its opponents that would have placed geographic restrictions on Roundup Ready alfalfa to prevent organic and traditional alfalfa from being contaminated by herbicide sprays and transgenes spread by cross-pollination and other factors," Ludwig reports.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Monsanto's Mutant Alfalfa and the Feral Pig Invasion The Media Consortium 2011
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And we already know human-designed transgenes are promiscuous as hell.
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Subsequent development has made it possible to introduce and overexpress a large number of transgenes in mice and also other mammals [27].
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information 2007
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