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- adjective genetics Describing a
genetic modification in whichgenes from otherspecies are not involved
Etymologies
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cis- + genic
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Last year, the U.S.D.A. ruled that plants that had undergone simple cisgenic edits — changes to the plant’s own DNA, of the kind that could theoretically be created by years of traditional crossbreeding — would not be subject to the same regulation as other G.M.O.s.
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