Genetically Modified Organism or GMOs

Running head: GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD
Genetically Modified Food
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD1
Introduction
Genetically Modified Organism or GMOs are developed by using recombinant DNA
technology. It is produced by using an artificial technique, where any interspecies or
intraspecies gene can be exchanged with one other to develop a new variety (microinjections,
electroporation, agrobacterium). The hereditary material of one species is transferred to
another by several mechanisms. It has an immense contribution to the present world,
especially in the food industries and intends to develop more in the future (Zhang,
Wohlhueter and Zhang 2016). The altered crops successfully diminished many issues in
cultivation; one of them is the development of resistant plants.
Discussion
The genetically modified crops are generally modified plants that are used in the
agriculture. These crops are developed by three generation. The first generation was used in
the agriculture industry, the next generation developed for improving the quality of the food
by altering the nutrient constitute of the food, and the final generation was used in the
pharmaceutical industry. There are many examples of genetically modified crops used as
food. The famous are golden rice which has a greater amount of dietary sources especially
vitamin A (Oliver 2014). Tricicale crop is also used worldwide for preparing breads. The
development of these crops are very popular because it made an promising approach in
coping up with the world’s population due to its small breeding time. The examples of
modified food are apple, which is an antibiotic resistance crop, beans, developed for viral
resistance disease, eggplant, developed for getting antibiotic resistance crop (Zhang,
Wohlhueter and Zhang 2016).. Other examples are melon, plum, potato, papaya and many
more. Many varieties of rice are developed which are basically anti-allergic, antibiotic