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Food Biotechnology

An organism as found in nature; the organism before it is genetically engineered.

Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Charles Hagedorn — An Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary

The most frequent allele or genotype found in nature, or a specified organism against which mutant s are defined.

UN Food and Agriculture Organization — Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture

Science› Biotechnology and Genetics

Human Genome

The form of an organism that occurs most frequently in nature.

Human Genome Project — Human Genome Project