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Are GMOs good for health ? technology enabless the „stitching together“ of pieces of DNA, regardless of the source of the pieces. Since 1980s, this technology has been used extensively in the lab by researches for countless purposes: to make copies od genes or proteins, to determine gene function, to study gene expression patterns, and to create models for human disease.The most common found GM crops in the US are soya, corn and cotton. In very hard natural conditions genetically modified crops are the only ones On Monday 23rd April 2018 we had a lecture about GMO by Mgr. Tomáš Moravec PhD. He studied in Charles University in Prague. GMO means genetically modified organism or micro-organism whose genetic material has been altered to contain a segment of DNA from another organism. Modern recombinant DNA 3