Farmers have used genetic engineering in their own line of expertise; agriculture. Farmers have the desire to grow the best and sweetest crops. In order to accomplish this, they will perform two types of agricultural genetic engineering: simple and technological.
Simple agricultural genetic engineering involves selecting parent crops with the desirable characteristics that they would want to be produced in the offspring, and cross breeding the two selected parent crops.
Technological agricultural genetic engineering involves extracting the desired traits in the DNA from the select parent crops and inserting them into a selected crop. This covers the hassle of having to cross breed and comes up as the same results as simple agricultural genetic engineering would do in crops.
Genetic engineering in agriculture can provide a large benefit to everyone. With genetic engineering, plants can be genetically created to taste better than the original crop, or be grown to have a more nutritious value. For farmers, besides the advantage of increased productivity, they can benefit from genetic engineering by, instead of using pesticides because pesticides pollute the environment, extracting certain DNA from different plants, that don’t attract insects and other parasites, into plants that do attract parasites. This way, the environment stays unharmed, the crops are still may continue to grow with no parasites eating away at them, and the farmers receive their pay from the rich crops they sell.
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