Answer to Question #134643 in Genetics for Kiana

Question

1. What is the problem encountered in a classical breeding which gave the way to the birth of genetic engineering or recombinant DNA technology?
2. In what stage of meiosis I does genetic engineering/RDT modify and recombine DNAs to produce desired products with desirable traits?

Answer 1

1.The problem of improving the varieties of fruits and vegetables offered to farmers and consumers by making them better tasting, higher yielding, different looking, longer storing, or resistant to diseases, nematodes, and insects.

2.Prophase I