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Well, genetics is really important in several different aspects of our modern day society.
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One of those aspects is in crop production.
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For example, if we take a tree that produces delicious red apples that are super sweet, we breed it with a tree that produces red apples that are good, but they're really big, really big apples.
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Bring them together, and we're able to get apples that are bigger and that taste a lot better.
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And we've been able to do this with our food so that it looks more appealing so that it's able to grow with less water, with less sunlight, when they're more disease resistant, and they overall taste better.
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We've also been able to do that with animals by choosing the bigger, fatter animals, bringing them together, and their offspring are larger as well.
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So we're able to get a lot more meat off of every animal...