A gardener saves seeds from a red tomato plant in her garden. She plants the seeds the following summer and is surprised when the plant produces orange tomatoes. Then she remembers the red tomato plant was next to a plant that produced yellow tomatoes. This an example of a GMO.

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This is an example of cross-pollination, not genetic modification. Cross-pollination occurs naturally when pollen from one plant fertilizes another plant of the same species, potentially leading to offspring with traits from both parent plants. GMOs, on the other hand, involve the direct manipulation of an organism's genes in a laboratory.

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