What is a GMO?
Genetically modified organisms and food safety
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What is a GMO?
Genetically modified organisms and food safety

Authors : Antoine RAS, Yvon GERVAISE, Dalila HACHANI

Publication date: March 10, 2001 | Lire en français

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1. What is a GMO?

1.1 Definition

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A genetically modified organism (GMO) is a living organism whose genetic material has been altered other than by natural multiplication or recombination, i.e. by modifying the expression of one of its genes or by adding a foreign gene.

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the carrier of genetic information transmitted from generation to generation. The gene is the basic unit of this information.

The chronology of gene expression is as follows (figure 1 ):

  • the DNA sequence carrying the gene is converted and...

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