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Genetic Engineering and Transgenic Organisms

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Genetic engineering alters an organism's genotype using recombinant DNA technology; an organism receiving DNA from a different species this way is transgenic.

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A crop plant engineered to carry a bacterial gene it does not naturally possess is a transgenic organism.

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An organism is transgenic when inserted DNA comes from a different species — a GMO more broadly covers any deliberate genome alteration.