Question: The company Hematech makes transgenic or genetically engineered cattle. Because of the genetic change that happens in genetic engineering.... . . these Hematech cattle are

The company Hematech makes transgenic or genetically engineered cattle. Because of the genetic change that happens in genetic engineering....
..these Hematech cattle are a new species and would not be able to be crossed with non transgenic cattle.
...these Hematech cattle are not technically a new species but they would not be expected to produce fertile offspring when crossed with normal cattle because of the magnitude of the genetic change imposed by genetic engineering.
...the magnitude of genetic change in these transgenic cattle is relatively small and would not create a new species or interfere with the fertility of offspring.
..is not great in this case because the transgenic cattle have a knockout transgene but in other genetic engineering cases such as Bt corn or RR soybean where a new gene was added to the genome that encoded a new protein, the transgenic organism is a new species and genetic engineering created a reproduction barrier.
The company Hematech makes transgenic or

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