Definition of "transgenics" []

• The study of or methodology used to create transgenic animals or plants. (noun)

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• "Fact vs. Fiction As the Bt brinjal episode highlights, using GM seeds -- often referred to as "transgenics" -- to increase food production and lower production costs is fraught with controversy."
• "This technology is known as transgenics, and it was first demonstrated in 1973."
• "Spegg is going to use the array to contact an army of transgenics and bring them to present day Earth?"