20. Why are transgenics
considereda threat to the
environmental safety?

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Transgenics can be dangerous the
entire biosphere since transfer of
genes between may have
immediate and term unpredictable
consequences. The of new
species by is a slow process,
on causal mutations and
selection, a relatively safe
for the ecologicale quilibrium.
is impossible to know the fast and
artificial of transgenic
beings in affects ecosystems.
Pathogenic agents be involuntarily
created in , spreading
unknown diseases; transgenic
may uncontrollably proliferate
destroying interactions that
have taken of years to be
; the ingestion of transgenic
also has unpredictable effects.