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Manipulation of genes has been used by humans in farming & agriculture for hundreds of years.

Longer Explanation:

Genetic engineering in the stictest definition is a fairly new technology. It consists of extracting a gene or genes from a plant or animal and inserting it into another plant or animal, or changing it in some way and inserting it back into the original plant or animal in order to get a desired trait. The most familiar known use of the technology is to develop crops that are resistant to herbicides or plants that produce a substance that kils insects when the plant is eaten by them, though there are lesser-known uses of genetic engineering.

Though some might say that the use of genetic engineering includes the method of hybridization, hybridization is a totally different process that has been used throughout time. Another difference is that hybrids cannot be patented in the same way genetically engineered plants can.

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