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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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You're also inaccurate. While maize and wheat have long been domesticated, they certainly began as wild grasses.

Try and find a wild corn then.

Wild corn is extinct. It has been for centuries.

Read. The statement you quoted says they began as wild grasses.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

It's amazing that prehistoric people knew to do that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize

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It's amazing that prehistoric people knew to do that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize

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It's apparently fairly easy to. It ws done fairly recently to create Triticale. Straight crosses of rye and wheat were complete failures. But it was found that if we exposed the germ material, in vitro, to colchicine, polyploidism could be induced and a stable fertile, with itself only, cereal could be created (in 1927). A similiar technique is responsible for seedless watermelons.

The ability to see the chromosomes under a microscope may have made the process faster and more reliable but the process predates our understanding of the underlying mechanics.

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It's amazing that prehistoric people knew to do that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize

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It's apparently fairly easy to. It ws done fairly recently to create Triticale. Straight crosses of rye and wheat were complete failures. But it was found that if we exposed the germ material, in vitro, to colchicine, polyploidism could be induced and a stable fertile, with itself only, cereal could be created (in 1927). A similiar technique is responsible for seedless watermelons.

The ability to see the chromosomes under a microscope may have made the process faster and more reliable but the process predates our understanding of the underlying mechanics.

And apparently, civilization itself.

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Since EU consumers ran from foods labeled GMO, those in the industry vigorously fight labeling in the US.

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The lack of knowledge expressed in this thread is stunning.

First off Wheat and corn, Do you know why their are no wild wheat or corn? Because they were both created by man inserting the genes of one species of cereal grass into the genome of another distantly related species of cereal grass. By any reasonable definition of GMO all corn and all wheat qualify.

We've all been consuming Bt based insecticide for decades with no significant problems. As a matter of fact Bt derived insecticides are even allowed on organic produce. Inserting the gene(s) that makes the toxin into crop plants simply makes the plant produce something we would otherwise be spraying onto it.

People should become well educated on a subject before believing hype against it.

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ORIGINAL: MrBukani
What do you think of GMO's?

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

The lack of knowledge expressed in this thread is stunning.

First off Wheat and corn, Do you know why their are no wild wheat or corn? Because they were both created by man inserting the genes of one species of cereal grass into the genome of another distantly related species of cereal grass. By any reasonable definition of GMO all corn and all wheat qualify.

We've all been consuming Bt based insecticide for decades with no significant problems. As a matter of fact Bt derived insecticides are even allowed on organic produce. Inserting the gene(s) that makes the toxin into crop plants simply makes the plant produce something we would otherwise be spraying onto it.

People should become well educated on a subject before believing hype against it.

Just to rectify this bullshit. Not all corn is GMO by definition. The first GMO was produced round 1973. You only call it a GMO when you extract DNA and insert it directly into another organism. I am stunned at your lack of knowledge. [:D]