313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Horizontal Gene Transfer in GMO Crops
horizontal gene transfer is the introduction of a gene from one species into another. It doesn't have very often and it shouldn't but it happens where you get microbes uh... viruses or bacteria that end up transfering dn a from one species to another so it does happen in animals. A huge about half of the cows genome has come from snakes and it came from snakes by ticks well these don't do anything right they just copies itself.
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