What actually is a "genetically modified organism" ?
This is quite a comprehensive article that was published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
Quoting from the article:
"Plants with favourable characteristics have been produced for thousands of years by conventional breeding methods. Desirable traits are selected, combined and propagated by repeated sexual crossings over numerous generations. This is a long process, taking up to 15 years to produce new varieties.1 Genetic engineering not only allows this process to be dramatically accelerated in a highly targeted manner by introducing a small number of genes, it can also overcome the barrier of sexual incompatibility between plant species and vastly increase the size of the available gene pool."
