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Visit this website http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/darwin/origin/  and explore the pollenpeepers’ adaptive radiation. Read the introductory comments on the first screen, and then click on “Explore what Darwin called ‘the mystery of mysteries’.”

Question one: Many people have additional worries about genetically modified food. One concern is that GMOs might escape into the environment and possibly compete with native species and cause problems. Would this also be a concern, do you think, for projects aimed at evolving self-replicating RNA populations? Which are more likely to survive if they escape into the natural environment, and why?

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First we need to understand the meaning of the word GMOs. basiccaly this term is stand for genetically modified organism which are the certain types of microrganism which are treated with the some medical science experiment and by the vurute of the medical engineering techniques the genes of these microrganism are altered. now these microrganism are genetically modified organism. it may be that these organism will have the more resistance towrds the environemental changes and have high withstand property and thats why they used in food industries to keep the food long lasting.

but it have certain adverse effect on the health of the people as well as on the environement. in this view point that if they escaped to the atmosphere then will it produce any problem to the native species or not. the answer is yes because they are now in the synthetic form which modified and varied completely from the genetics of the natural and native species. they will make them to destroy can lead to imbalancing of the ecological cycle.

they are modified in such a way that they will definetly replicate the RNA population. those which have the ability to withstand the environemental factors and have the more withstand rate as compared to the native species will have the highes chances of of survive if escaped to environment.

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