[광운대 편입영어 2024｜장문독해｜38~40번 기출 해설] GMO, 전통 교배보다 진화된 기술일까?

독해 문제 – 38~40번 (광운대 2024 A형) 지문 원문 (38–40) Genetic modification is not novel. Humans have been altering the genetic makeup of plants for millennia, keeping seeds from the best crops and planting them in following years, breeding and crossbreeding varieties to make them taste sweeter, grow bigger, last longer.

In this way we’ve transformed the wild tomato, Lycopersicon, from a fruit the size of a marble to today’s giant, juicy beefsteaks. From a weedy plant called teosinte with an “ear” barely a...