Genetic engineering is involved in:

I. Inserting a gene fromBacillus thuringiensisinto cotton.
II. Selective breeding to produce cattle with high milk yields.
III. Using herbicides to kill unwanted plants.
IV. Using insecticides to kill insect pests.

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Techniques to alter the chemistry of genetic material (DNA and RNA), to introduce these into host organisms and thus change the phenotype of the host organism come under genetic engineering. Statement I is only one where gene is been manipulated artificially to get a desired effect. Selective breeding can be considered as gene manipulation but there is no control on the outcome but chance.

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