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In Mexico, planting of high-yield wheat varieties begins.
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Scientists create a recombitant organism by transferring viral DNA into bacterium.
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Researchers were awarded a US patent that would allow them to create insuilin from genetically modefied bacteria
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The Human Genome Project hoping to sequence the full DNA of humans
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In Scotland's Roslin institute, researchers cloned a sheep named Dolly. It was cloned from an udder cell of an adult ewe.
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Arabidopsis thalina was the first entire plant genome to be sequenced.
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Australia passes the " Phrohibition of Human Cloning Act 2002 " owtlawing any form of human cloning and the " Reaearch Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 " that allowes researchers to acess surplus human embryos.
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GM products were first approved for planting in Germany.
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US researchers tested food-tolerant rice. In the US, GM rice was approved for human consumption.
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GM crops will be expected to have properties with more direct consumer benefit such as eimination of allergens in food, increased nutritional content, and low fat and oil levels.
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75% of food products will be legally genetically modified.
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All foods consumed will be genetically modified
