What is Genetic Modifying?

All creatures are many of billions of microscopic cells. Inside each cell, there is a piece of DNA. DNA is passed from generation to generation, which passes on the information needed by the creature to survive.

Genetic modifying (GM), genetic engineering (GE) and genetic manipulating (GM) all mean the same thing: The use of modern biotechnology techniques to changes DNA structures of an organism. A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism that has been changed using the biotechnologies.

Traditionally, specific “applications” have been added to the animal’s “genetic coding” by breeding. The process of the traditional breeding methods involve finding other organisms with the specified traits and crossing them with each other; however, that method had a shorter success rate than our technological methods. It also took much longer because they had to find organism’s that were compatible with the one they were trying to modify. As well, trying to breed for a specific trait was hard because they couldn’t control exactly what traits came over; both good and bad came over.

So, to sum up, genetic modifying/engineering/manipulating is adding, deleting or substituting pieces of one organism’s DNA with another’s.