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by viciousvoxel 188 days ago
Once a desirable sequence modification is identified through artificial means, what is often done in practice is to simply expose samples of the organism to UV until the desired sequence appears "naturally." The output of this process is not typically considered GMO, at least for regulatory purposes.
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Which you can do for knockouts, but not for the "splice in a new gene 400BP long".