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What is Genetic Engineering Biotechnology is the use of biological systems; living things - to make or change products. It has been used for centuries in traditional activities like baking bread and making cheese. Traditional biotechnology involved for example, developing a new wheat variety with early ripening characteristics by crossbreeding different types of wheat until the desired characteristics and only those characteristics were present in the new wheat variety. The terms 'gene technology', and 'genetic engineering' mean the same thing, and refer to one type of modern biotechnology. Since the 1950s scientists have learned that DNA in the cells of all living things is like a blueprint that is passed from one generation to another. DNA contains genes; messages coded with information that gives living things their particular characteristics like hair and eye colour. Scientists also discovered that all living things use the same genetic message code. This was the beginning...

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