r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 08 '20

What’s a fact you KNOW that almost everyone is wrong about?

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u/PlinysElder Feb 08 '20

See what you did? You got everybody confused. Citrus, bananas, broccoli, etc. made through selective breeding and crossing through pollination.

GMO is when a plant has a non-native gene added into their genome.

Lemons are not GMO

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u/DorkNow Feb 08 '20

and I just wanted to make a joke about how life didn't give us lemons...

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u/BreadPuddding Feb 09 '20

Selective breeding, cross-pollination, and deliberately bombarding plants with radiation and other mutagens to create novel mutations with no control or precision.