GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM

  

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GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM

Specialty Definition: GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM

DomainDefinition

Medicine

An organism in which the genetic material has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM

Specialty definitions using "GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM": GMO. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Hungary

Hungary has had legislation governing the use, registration and imports of genetically modified organism (GMO) materials. (references)

Political Economy

SWITZERLAND

In addition, all food products with a genetically modified organism content above one percent must be labeled as such. (references)

SWITZERLAND

Standards, Testing, Labeling, and Certification: The government must approve all genetically modified organism products before they can be sold and consumed in Switzerland. (references)

Trade

Brazil

The labeling requirement for genetically modified organism (GMO) must follow the same procedures as mentioned above, although, GMO is currently being debated in Brazil. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

genetically modified organism

88

genetically modified organism picture

3

definition genetically modified organism

2

food genetically modified organism

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM

Language Translations for "GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

GMO, genetisk modificeret organisme. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

GGO, genetisch gemodificeerd organisme. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

GMO, geneettisesti muunnettu organismi. (various references)

   

French

  

organisme génétiquement modifié, OGM. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γενετικώς τροποποιημένος οργανισμός. (various references)

   

Italian

  

organismo geneticamente modificato, OGM. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eneticallygay odifiedmay organismay

   

Portuguese

  

organismo geneticamente modificado, OGM. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

organismo modificado genéticamente, OMG. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Bibliography


  

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