So its the corn that is genetically modified.
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Varyk@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Thats a teosinte seed; teosinte is the grass ancestor of corn that still grows in Mexico.
credo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
anzo@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Ancestor is not the same as non GMO. One could say that primates in Madagascar are ancestors to human. But there’s no human population that is either GMO or went through the process of selective breeding.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
True, but people selectively bred teosinte into corn.
Sightline@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ok… but the reason why people don’t like GMOs is because they’re bred to be doused in pesticides. They also can cross-pollinate with non-GMO’s to create non viable seeds among other things.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
selective breeding
I wonder, isn’t sexual selection a form of “selective breeding”?
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Indeed.
Dufurson@fedia.io 5 weeks ago
TIL