Why might we want to introduce new genes into plants?

a. to improve their nutritional value to primary consumers
b. to produce a genetically modified plant
c. to create plants that can produce pharmaceutical drugs.
d. to produce plants resistant to certain kinds of damage
e. all of these


E

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