It was the product not of genetic engineering but of patient, old-fashioned cross-breeding, of the kind farmers have been doing for centuries.

这不是基因工程的产物，而是来自耐心的，老式的杂交育种，是那些友好的农民们做了几个世纪的事情。

youdao

That would make sense, as you are also the product of genetic engineering that has taken place for thousands of years.

这将会被理解，因为你其实也是基因工程的杰作，这已经在几千年前发生了。

youdao

It made Lydia wonder whether gentility might be a product of genetic engineering.

它使利迪娅考虑文雅是不是遗传工程的成果。

youdao

In spite of the scientific consensus that the new techniques of genetic engineering are essentially extensions, or refinements, of conventional (but less precise and less predictable) techniques of genetic modification, both U.N. entities have established requirements for the products of genetic engineering (whether plants or food derived from them) that no conventionally modified product could meet.

FORBES: Commentary