Name: GMOパート1 - それは何ですか？ (GMO Part 1 - What Is It?)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:57:28.000Z
Duration: 2 min 25 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

GM: genetically modified. What does that mean?

Banana with eyes, or more soy in your bean?

Let's stop for a second and back up a bit, and let's see what's a gene and where does it

All stuff is made up of small chemical atoms, stacked up together in grandiose

But life is more complex and built to strict plans, from chemical recipes in

Genes are sentences which describe functions and traits, like the shape, size

Ten thousand years back at the very start of farming, humans picked the traits

Selective breeding took these best variations, refining over and over

generations. Whatever the characteristic or colour, cause determined by genes in

Today we can use enzymes to snip DNA, so genes can be cut, pasted, moved any

Boost a gene, block a gene, bring a gene from elsewhere,

animal, bacteria, or plant you can share.

No, no, not quite like that. It requires more precision to make a genetically

Using a virus, gene gun or tiny needle, we change canola, or pig and

Human insulin producing bacteria or clotting factors to treat hemophilia.

Transgenic plants can be made far more persistent, pest, weed killer and harsh

Oil crops, corn and rice are being made more nutritious,

virus resistance squashes, no less auspicious.

In research, jellyfish genes act as markers in mammals, we tweak model

Ok, ok, dicing genes is undoubtedly clever, but has anyone asked about the why's or

improve all the crops. The cons: unforeseen issues and stumbling blocks.

So are we cautious or Luddites if we stand in the way,