VIII. Use active or passive voice of the given words.

One biotechnology applied to food crops is genetic engineering. Genetic

engineering is the process in which either a desired gene of an organism (is isolated), spliced out of the surrounding genetic sequence, cloned using laboratory

techniques, and inserted into the host organism which (is modified). The host crop

then (displays) the desired manifestations of the gene. This means that scientists

can modify a plant so that it displays traits from other plants, such as greater leaf

area or a different color. Genetic engineering can also refer to the removal of a

specific gene from the DNA of the target crop, which then (prevents) the plant

from manifesting that gene. Using this technique, genetic engineers can select for

certain phenotypes, and the processes related to said trains, without having to

undergo selective breeding within a population. Genetic engineering (takes) less

time than selective breeding, and in some cases is able to carry out genetic changes

that would not occur naturally.