5 Example of GMO Plants

Corn

Almost 85 percent of corn grown in the U.S. is genetically modified. Even Whole
Foods's brand of corn flakes was found to contain genetically modified corn. Many
producers modify corn and soy so they are resistant to the herbicide glyphosate,
which is used to kill weeds.

Soy

Soy is the most heavily genetically modified food in the country. The largest U.S.
producer of hybrid seeds for agriculture, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, created
a genetically engineered soybean, which was approved in 2010. It is modified to
have a high level of oleic acid, which is naturally found in olive oil. Oleic acid is a
monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid that may lower LDL cholesterol (traditionally
thought of as "bad" cholesterol) when used to replace other fats.

Yellow Crookneck Squash and Zucchini

Numbers of this GMO veggie are relatively small, but genetically modified yellow
squash and zucchini can be found in two different species in the U.S. The species
contain protein genes that protect against viruses. Just like their other GMO
counterparts, you won't be able to tell the difference between non-GMO and GMO
zucchini or squash
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Alfalfa

Cultivation of genetically engineered alfalfa was approved in 2011, and consists of a

gene that makes it resistant to the herbicide Roundup, allowing farmers to spray the
chemical without damaging the alfalfa.

Canola

Canola is genetically engineered form was approved in 1996, and as of

2006, around 90 percent of U.S. canola crops are genetically modified.
 5 Example of GMO Animals

Dolly the sheep

In 1996, British scientists created the first cloned sheep, named Dolly, by
transferring the nucleus from an adult cell into an unfertilized premature egg whose
nucleus had been removed, a process called nuclear transfer. Sadly, Dolly died of a
lung disease at the age of six.

Glow-in-the-dark mice
And in 2002, scientists at Caltech created glow-in-the-dark mice by injecting single-
celled mouse embryos with a virus that contained a jellyfish gene for green
fluorescence. Researchers have since created glow-in-the-dark fish, cats, and other
animals.

Less farty cows

Some of these experiments serve a noble purpose. Researchers at the University of
Alberta in Canada found the bacterium that produces methane, and in 2009, they
created a line of cattle that produces 25% less of the smelly gas than the average
cow. This is important because methane from cows is a major source of the
greenhouse gases causing global warming.
Silk-spinning goats
In 2012, scientists at the University of Wyoming engineered goats to produce a
protein in spider silk in their milk. Silk is useful for a variety of applications in
materials science and medicine, and it's hard to get spiders to make enough of it.

Salmon
And soon, we could be eating genetically modified animals. The AquAdvantage(R)
Salmon, created by a company called AquaBounty Technologies, contains a
gene from the Chinook salmon that makes it grow much faster. The salmon is
currently under review by the FDA.

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Genetically modified
organism of plants,
animals

Jericho D. Arbillar

ABM-11

St. Jude Thaddeus