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Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Dufurson@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL

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• credo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So its the corn that is genetically modified.

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  • anzo@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True, but people selectively bred teosinte into corn.

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      • Sightline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      selective breeding

      I wonder, isn’t sexual selection a form of “selective breeding”?

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Indeed.

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