Brainonska511
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- Dec 10, 2005
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How do you get traits from bacteria or even an apple to appear in corn via selective breeding?
You can just grow plants until you see your desired trait appear (convergent evolution, where disparate paths produce the same phenotype). But for very different things, or if you're looking for a very specific trait (and not just a phenotype of resistance to x), the odds of it happening are extremely slim.
Sometimes, for plant crosses, you can find a wild plant with a similar gene and get them to breed together, but that generally has low chances of success. Hence, the desire to move the genes directly.
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