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Bt Cotton: A Painful Episode, Need For Thoughtful Policy

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Environmental factors can lead to genetic mutation by generating new gene alleles (either of a pair of genes). The new allele may improve its suitability (of propagation in subsequent generations) within the organism and increases its frequency, or decrease its suitability and finally disappear. Such interactions of genes with environment are another component of the nature-nurture debate.

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as much as 60 per cent of chicken genes correspond to those in humans, according to scientists who prepared the first avian genetic map