GMO
On Monday 23rd April 2018 we had a lecture
about GMO by Mgr. Tomáš Moravec PhD. He studied
in Charles University in Prague. Nowadays Tomáš
Moravec is the head of the laboratory of biology in the
Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR. He also
publishes material for students. He has published 28
books so far.
He tries to make a vaccine against oncogenic
Human Papillomavirus.
Tomáš Moravec was talking about GMO for 2
hours. We found out that GMO means genetically modified organism or micro-
organism whose genetic material has been altered to contain a segment of DNA
from another organism. Modern recombinant DNA technology enabless the
„stitching together“ of pieces of DNA, regardless of the source of the pieces.
Since 1980s, this technology has been used extensively in the lab by
researches for countless purposes: to make copies od genes or proteins, to
determine gene function, to study gene expression patterns, and to create
models for human disease.
The most common found GM crops in the US are soya, corn and cotton.
Most of
public information about GMO is false, because it comes from fake sources.
People should look for sources which come from scientists. If they want better
sources they can use a word „transgenic“ instead „genetically modified“,
because the scientists use this word.
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