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from other plants or animals.

Currently, thanks to biotechnology, a gene can be changed from one organism to another to provide it with some quality that it lacks, in this way some plants can better withstand droughts, for example.

Among the transgenic foods we can find the following:

*Transgenic corn: in the case of corn, the new genes are implanted in the plant genome. Thanks to this modification, corn is much more resistant to insects and herbicides. The corn kernels they produce after genetic transformation are bright and orange in color.