Minds that live for

摘要

Transgenics are present day man-made living organisms that have been genetically engineered to stably harbour, express and transmit a gene borrowed from taxonomically unrelated source. Such genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been developed inmicrobes, plants and animals. Since the existence of transgenic is a challenge/tease to the evolutionary course of development of crossability barriers, the skepticism is inevitable. The resulting fallacies mainly include escape of the new gene from thetransgenic background into the environment, which have been generally addressed with respect to plants systems only. After the lead taken by America and China, a few European countries and many other countries are in the race to welcome the adoption of GM crops. More or less, in every such case the long-term benefit was considered because presently there is no convincing reason to think of likely harm it can cause, thus overshadowing the negative points on which the existing fallacies are built. Although one must not be against the emerging general view regarding the adoption of the GM crops, certain points seem to have been least addressed.