Selective breeding modifies the genes, so⌠No.
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chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Not sure what this is trying to say, but this seems to conflate genetic modification with selective breeding!
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Or, yes?
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Selective breeding is a form of genetic modification. Thatâs what itâs trying to say.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
By the individual definitions of the words, yes. However in actual use, genetically modified means modification through direct methods such as chemical agents, enzymes, or electroporation.
You can selectively breed rabbits for 1000 years and not get a glow in the dark rabbit that can be made in a week in a lab.
www.google.com/âŚ/glow-in-dark-rabbits-scientists
Signtist@lemm.ee â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Sure, but you could selectively breed rabbits for 1,000,000 years and get a glow in the dark rabbit; GFP is just a protein like any other - if you painstakingly selectively breed for a specific DNA sequence, youâll eventually get it regardless of your starting genetic pool. Classic selective breeding is a form of genetic modification - modern genetic modification methods are just way faster.
I agree that we donât currently know enough about genetics to utilize genetic modification without unforeseen side effects, and so there should be limitations on what weâre able to genetically modify until we can show that we understand it well enough to meaningfully minimize potential issues, but those same issues occur with selective breeding - theyâre, again, just slower.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Thatâs all beside the point that actual scientists use GMO to mean directly genetically modified and not selective breeding.
The speed of a technology is a substantial difference.
Claiming selective breeding is GMO because they are both artificial genetic modifications is like saying a horse and an Boeing 747 are both just transportation.
MSugarhill@discuss.tchncs.de â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
You cannot distinguish selective bread organisms from gene edited (think CRISPR) organisms. You also do not get glow the dark rabbits from it. But you can get the same result as with selective breeding over countless generations in one generation.