Africa a continent once blessed with vast natural habitat
providing natural resources foods and medicinal plants, fresh waters, minerals
with a rich history cultural heritage and hospitable people has been reduced to
a continent laden with wars, suffering, impoverishment, greed and a multitude
of diseases. And now, Africa is being confronted with yet another seemingly
sweet but bitter package of GMOs but only designed to compound the current
problems Africa is grappling with.
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) are a result of
laboratory processes where genes from the DNA of one species are extracted and
artificially forced into genes of an unrelated plant or animal. The foreign
genes may come from bacteria, viruses, insects, animals or even humans. GMO’s
can also be described as living organisms whose genetic material has been
artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering.
Genetic Engineering or Modification is a set of technologies
used to change the genetic makeup of cells including the transfer of genes
within and across species boundaries to introduce improved/novel organisms or
the direct manipulation of an organism’s genome using bio-technology.
Genome is an organism complete set of DNA including all the
genes each genome contains all the information needed to build and maintain
that organism.
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