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PufPuf23

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11. You are wrong and scientifically not precise in language..

Reply to ConservativeDemocrat (Reply #10)

Fri Aug 19, 2016, 12:47 AM

Aug 2016

GMO is genetic engineering what you describe is not genetic engineering.

You would lose a point on a True / False exam of a survey of genetics class in junior college.

Look at something as basic as the first two paragraphs of wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_rice

Note that the first two sentences at wiki differentiates between genetic engineering and natural horizontal gene transfer.

What is your problem?

You stated that the high yield rice in the 1970s Green Revolution was a GMO and it is most assuredly not.

The only difference can be more than speed but I have zero desire to go there with you.

You made a mis-statement. Own it.

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Another brilliant GMO breakthrough: "bio-fortified" rice [View all] ConservativeDemocrat Aug 2016 OP

Excellent news. Loki Liesmith Aug 2016 #1

So awesome. ZombieHorde Aug 2016 #2

Yeah, I'm just waiting for the Food Babe to criticize it GaYellowDawg Aug 2016 #3

But but but,... MONSANTO IS EEEEEEEEEEEVIL!!!!!!!!!!! MohRokTah Aug 2016 #4

No, it's "BUT, BUT, BUT GLYPHOSATE CAUSES THE LURGI!" longship Aug 2016 #6

K&R for science! nt Dr Hobbitstein Aug 2016 #5

You perhaps should not post about GMOs because PufPuf23 Aug 2016 #7

Horizontal gene transfer also exists in nature ConservativeDemocrat Aug 2016 #8

I never criticized anything to do with technology. PufPuf23 Aug 2016 #9

This is like saying TVs in the 1960s were not electronics ConservativeDemocrat Aug 2016 #10

You are wrong and scientifically not precise in language.. PufPuf23 Aug 2016 #11

GMO is not as precisely defined as you think Major Nikon Aug 2016 #13

You're like one of those people who insist that black people can't be racist... ConservativeDemocrat Aug 2016 #14

But, many use the fallen seen, during harvesting, for the next growth. GMO and hybrid prevents this. TheBlackAdder Aug 2016 #12

No, it doesn't ConservativeDemocrat Aug 2016 #15