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Recombinant DNA is not something that has been invented in the last 10 years by scientists. Recombination has probably been around as long as DNA has been around, and occurs naturally in vivo at a fairly high frequency. However, there are limitations to the recombination that occurs in vivo. First, it usually, although not always, occurs only between molecules that are strongly homologous to one another. Therefore recombination in vivo only offers limited scope for diversified genetic information.
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Hamer, D.H. (1986). Recombinant DNA — an introduction. In: Augustine, P.C., Danforth, H.D., Bakst, M.R. (eds) Biotechnology for Solving Agricultural Problems. Beltsville Symposia in Agricultural Research, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4396-4_2
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