genetically modified food :)!

1). Genetically modified (GM) foods are food items that have had their DNA changed through genetic engineering.

2). Unlike conventional genetic modification that is carried out through conventional breeding and that have been consumed for thousands of years, GM foods were first put on the market in the early 1990s.

3). The most common modified foods are derived from plants: soybean, corn, canola, and cotton seed oil.

4). The first commercially grown genetically modified whole food crop was the tomato.

gene therapy :)!

1). Genes, which are carried on chromosomes, are the basic physical and functional units of heredity.

2). Retroviruses - A class of viruses that can create double-stranded DNA copies of their RNA genomes. These copies of its genome can be integrated into the chromosomes of host cells.

3). Adenoviruses - A class of viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that cause respiratory, intestinal, and eye infections in humans. The virus that causes the common cold is an adenovirus.

4). Adeno-associated viruses - A class of small, single-stranded DNA viruses that can insert their genetic material at a specific site on chromosome 19.

5). Herpes simplex viruses - A class of double-stranded DNA viruses that infect a particular cell type, neurons. Herpes simplex virus type 1 is a common human pathogen that causes cold sores.